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
Totally 66 patients (31% of all patients) were diagnosed with metastatic disease at presentation. The characteristics of the patients are shown in Table 1. The median age was 50 years, two-thirds of the patients were men, and their primary lesions were more axial sited (56%).