What is mastastic carcinoma?

Metastatic carcinoma--means the cancer is spreading--not the best thing.

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search it on the internet

advanced cancer =(

Metastatic carcinoma from an unknown primary site has acquired the following definition: histologically documented cancer with no primary site apparent after (1) careful clinical history taking and (2) physical examination that includes pelvic and rectal inspection and chest films (1-3). This circumstance accounts for about 3% to 5% of all newly diagnosed cancers in North America. Median survival time is less than 6 months, and 85% of patients are dead within a year (2) (figure 1: not shown). However, 5% to 10% of patients may be long-term survivors (3).

metastatic Carinoma - is a highly volatile form of cancer that spreads to other body parts-

metastatic

1. Pathology. Transmission of pathogenic microorganisms or cancerous cells from an original site to one or more sites elsewhere in the body, usually by way of the blood vessels or lymphatics.
2. A secondary cancerous growth formed by transmission of cancerous cells from a primary growth located elsewhere in the body.
1 : of, relating to, or caused by metastasis <cutaneous metastatic disease as the first sign of lung cancer>
2 : tending to metastasize <determine what makes some cancer cells more metastatic than others


Carcinoma

An invasive malignant tumor derived from epithelial tissue that tends to metastasize to other areas of the body.
any malignant tumor derived from epithelial tissue; one of the four major types of cancer

I am assuming that mastatic means metastatic.

Metastatic carcinoma -- bone cancer, adenocarcinoma, skeletal metastases, bone carcinoma, carcinoma of the bone, metastatic bone disease, bone metastases, pathologic fracture. {e-medicine}
Metastasis (Greek: change of the state) is the spread of cancer from its primary site to other places in the body (e.g., brain, liver). { Wikipedia}
Whether or not cancer cells metastasize to other parts of the body depends on many factors, including:
* The type of cancer
* The stage of the cancer
* Original location of the cancer
Metastatic carcinoma can be from an unknown primary site too.
In females, breast and lung are the most common primary sites of disease, comprising approximately 80% of the cancers in females that spread to bone. In males, prostate and lung comprise 80% of the carcinomas that metastasize to bone. The remaining 20% of primary disease sites in patients of both sexes are kidney, gut, thyroid, and sites of unknown origin.

Cancer cells from the primary site, should migrate and go to the bone to cause metastatic carcinoma. People who think they have remission from breast cancer or other cancer, may suddenly be diagnosed with metastatic carcinoma.

Metastatic carcinoma is a kind of cancer that spread to distant organs by blood or lymphatic vessels.

I think you mean metastatic carcinoma. Here's some links...
basically it is cancer that keeps growing in a tumor.

http://www.gpnotebook.co.uk/cache/-59034...
http://www.proleukin.com/mrcc.pdf

The spread of carcinoma cells, from one part of the body to another usually by blood or lymph and then there is the secondary growth of that carcinoma.