People often need long-term care when they have a serious, ongoing health condition or disability. The need for long-term care can arise suddenly, such as after a heart attack or stroke. Most often, however, it develops gradually, as people get older and frailer or as an illness or disability gets worse.
Metastasis, or metastatic disease, is the spread of a cancer or other disease from one organ or part to another not directly connected with it. The new occurrences of disease thus generated are referred to as metastases /mÉ Ëtaes ËtÃ¦s tÉ/ (siËz sometimes abbreviated). mets
Definition of metastasis. plural. metastases. play \-ËsÄz\. 1a : change of position, state, or formb : the spread of a disease-producing agency (as cancer cells) from the initial or primary site of disease to another part of the body metastasis of breast cancer to bone â Medical Physics; also : the process by which such spreading occurs.