How Prostate Cancer Spreads. Prostate cancer grows within the prostate gland often for many years. If it s caught and.
When this type of cancer spreads your doctor may say it has metastasized it tends to first show up in the tissues or lymph nodes that are closest to the prostate gland. Over time the cancer spreads outside the prostate. M0 means that there is no evidence of spread of prostate cancer into distant tissues or organs.
Prostate cancer grows within the prostate gland often for many years.
Once it spreads the disease may still respond to the treatment but typically it is now no longer to be cured. When this type of cancer spreads your doctor may say it has metastasized it tends to first show up in the tissues or lymph nodes that are closest to the prostate gland. Prostate cancer can sometimes spread from the prostate to the bones which is known as bone metastasis. It can be by direct invasion or by traveling through.
