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How Do You Call The Medical Condition Whereby A Cancer Patient Presents Symptoms Of Another Type Of Cancer?

How do you call the medical condition whereby a cancer patient presents symptoms of another type of cancer that he does not have (ex. a pancreatic cancer patient with lung cancer symptoms)?

2 Comments

  1. Hey1023 says:

    That is not a condition and there isn’t a name for it. Symptoms help in the diagnosis process. If a patient is seen in the emergency room for example, they may be admitted listing a few to several probable diagnosis based on tests done up to that point.

  2. Denisedd says:

    I am not sure exactly what term you mean. For example, if a person has prostate cancer, and that cancer spreads to the bones, the person is said to have prostate cancer that has metastasized to the bones, not bone cancer.

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