A client's most recent diagnostic imaging has revealed that lung cancer has metastasized to the bones and liver. what is the most likely mechanism by which the client's cancer cells spread?

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Lymphatic circulation is the way by which the client's cancer cells spread to the bones and liver.

  • Small blood arteries can be used by cancer cells to enter the bloodstream.
  • These cells are known as circulating tumor cells (or CTCs). to assist in cancer diagnosis and therapy vigilance. The cancer cells are carried by the moving blood until they become lodged.
  • Once cancer cells have broken out from the initial tumor and are in the bloodstream, they circulate as single cells or cell clusters (sometimes referred to as CTCs) until they are stopped in the capillary beds that feed the following organ in the circulatory system and remove waste.
  • The term "circulating tumor cells" (CTCs) refers to tumor cells that have exfoliated from the main tumor and extravasated into the bloodstream, where they circulate.

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