For example, if kidney cancer spreads to the lungs, the cancer cells in the lungs are actually kidney cancer cells. The disease is metastatic kidney cancer, not lung cancer. It is treated as kidney cancer, not lung cancer. Doctors sometimes call the new tumor metastatic or distant disease.
Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Rock Bottom. Rock Bottom is the second solo album by former Soft Machine drummer Robert Wyatt. It was released on 26 July 1974 by Virgin Records.
Originally, the bottom of the Cambrian was defined as the point where fossils began. Subsequently, older fossils have been found, and this definition is no longer valid. Now, it is roughly determined to be the point at which there is the first appearance of numerous fossil shells.