What is Carcinomatosis  By on September 6, 2014 in Uncategorized
Carcinomatosis is a medical condition in which multiple
carcinomas will develop from a primary source, often
simultaneously. They are forms of metastasis and whether they
spread in a general manner or in a defined pattern, they will
still be a form of disseminated cancer. In medical circles, the
term Carcinomatosis refers a situation in which multiple sites
will have multiple secondaries. It was, strictly speaking, used
to refer to carcinomas which are a type of epithelial cancers
and not lymphomas, cancer of the lymphatic system or sarcomas
either. The term has been diluted to mean all those cancers that
have a characteristic spread.  There are various types of
Carcinomatosis: Types of Carcinomatosis  It is important to note
that Carcinomatosis by far and large refer to cancer tumors that
originate from epithelial surfaces called adenocarcinomas while
if the cancer cells are of mesenchymal origin or sarcomas then
their dissemination is called