How do you call the medical condition whereby a cancer patient presents symptoms of another type of cancer?

by Symptom Advice on November 27, 2010

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)?

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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