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.
A particle of mineral or other rock that gives a rock texture. IGNEOUS ROCK. A type of rock that forms from the cooling of molten rock at or below the surface. SEDIMENTARY ROCK. A type of rock that forms when particles from other rocks or the remains of plants and animals are pressed and cemented together. METAMORPHIC ROCK. A type of rock that forms from an existing rock that is changed by heat, pressure, or chemical reactions.