Medicine:Secondary malignant neoplasm
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Secondary malignant neoplasm | |
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Specialty | Oncology |
Secondary malignant neoplasm is a malignant tumor whose cause is the treatment (usually radiation or chemotherapy) which was used for a prior tumor.[1] It must be distinguished from Metastasis from the prior tumor or a relapse from it since a secondary malignant neoplasm is a different tumor.
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Original source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary malignant neoplasm.
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