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
Metastatic disease of the musculoskeletal system is the result of the spread of cancer cells from another organ to the bone. While metastatic disease may result from any type of carcinoma, bone is among the most common sites for metastasis from carcinoma of the breast, prostate, lung, thyroid and kidney.