When cervical cancer has spread to distant organs, chemotherapy may be the main treatment option.
The good news is that most of these cancers are found before they spread (metastasize) to distant organs.
And when it has spread to distant organs, about one in five patients lives for five years or more.
We should remember that very little was known at that time about the ways in which the ovaries influence distant organs.
If prostate cancer has spread to distant organs, current therapy will not cure it.
Blade was alone in a void where his eyes saw nothing and the only sound was like a distant organ playing inside his head.
In stage IV, cancer has spread to distant organs or tissues.
If the cancer has spread to distant organs, the 5-year survival rate drops to 23%.
Metastasectomy: Surgery to remove any cancer that has spread to distant organs such as the lung.
Without surgical extirpation, the tumor may extend into distant organs.