Secondary Cancer. Secondary cancer after radiotherapy for prostate cancer. It happens when cancer cells from a primary tumour somewhere else in the body spread to the bones.
When the term second cancer is used it usually refers to a second primary cancer in other words a different cancer than the first cancer arising in a different organ or tissue. Where a cancer starts is called the primary cancer. New malignancies following cancer of the male genital tract.
In rare cases radiation therapy to the breast can cause a second cancer.
Secondary cancer n med metástasis f inv secondary education n educación f or enseñanza f secundaria segunda. Read more about diagnosis treatments and living with secondary breast cancer and find support. For example breast cancer cells may travel to lymph nodes in the armpit axilla or above the collar bone clavicle. Secondary breast cancer is not the same as breast cancer recurrence.
