secondary malignant neoplasm
A malignant neoplasm that arises from a pre-existing lower grade lesion, or as a result of a primary lesion that has spread to secondary sites, or due to a complication of a cancer treatment. [ ]
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secondary malignant neoplasm
- secondary cancer
- secondary malignancy
- secondary malignant neoplasm
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/umls/id/C0751623
Note that we currently treat secondary neoplasms as being neoplastic diseases that are derived from neoplasm; classes such as 'neoplasm', 'carcinoma' are implicitly primary. This may change in future.
http://identifiers.org/snomedct/128462008, http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C4968
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