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| | Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 4,918 Likes: 70 OCF Founder Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | | OCF Founder Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 4,918 Likes: 70 | This is an issue for pathologists if they are happening concurrently to name it. If one follows the other time-wise, which sometimes happens in tobacco users the are second primaries. They develop after getting through oral cancer, a second primary. Second primary may also refer to a concurrent cancer of a different origin / etiology. The metastasis of oral cancer to the cervical nodes, to the lungs to the brain, are all known sequential developments and have been seen happing for many decades, those are a spread ( metastasis of the original disease). It is ot a black and white terminology but therse are the various ways that people have described it to me in a clinical setting.
I tend to think that continuation and spread of the existing disease is a met, and anything new that develops is a second primary if the causative agent is different or the timing is not concurrent.
Brian, stage 4 oral cancer survivor. OCF Founder and Director. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant. | | |
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