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Discovering you have cancer is, without a doubt, a terrible blow, but to survive the disease and its gruelling treatment only to be diagnosed again must be extraordinarily hard to deal with.
When a cancer spreads from the part of the body where it started (the primary site) to another area, it is called metastatic cancer, as Aileen McHale of the Irish Cancer Society explains. âIf you have had a diagnosis of cancer before, it may come back in another part of your bodyâ â this is known as recurrent cancer â âor may have already spread when you were first diagnosed,â she says.
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Discovering you have cancer is, without a doubt, a terrible blow but to survive the disease and its gruelling treatment only to be diagnosed again, must be extraordinarily hard to deal with.
When a cancer spreads from the part of the body where it started (the primary site) to another area, it is called metastatic cancer as Aileen McHale, cancer information services manager with the Irish Cancer Society, explains. “If you have had a diagnosis of cancer before, it may come back in another part of your body [recurrent cancer] or may have already spread when you were first diagnosed,” she says.