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Featuring Demian Dressler, DVM and Sue Ettinger, DVM, Dip. ACVIM (Oncology), authors of The Dog Cancer Survival Guide

Local Invasion Definition

Local Invasion: When cancer tumors spread to the healthy tissues immediately surrounding the tumor, we call it local invasion. Local invasion is therefore different from metastasis, which is cancer that has spread to distant locations in the body.

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