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  2. Heart cancer - Wikipedia

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    Secondary or metastatic heart tumours are much more common than primary heart tumours, occurring even 100 times more often. [5] Every tumour in theory can metastasize to the heart with the only exception being tumours of the central nervous system . [ 6 ]

  3. Wikipedia:Osmosis/Cardiac Tumors - Wikipedia

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    Now the vast majority of tumors of the heart are actually secondary, meaning that a tumor developed somewhere else in the body, metastasized, and spread to the heart. Even though these secondary tumors can come from anywhere, they’re most commonly metastases from lung cancer, lymphoma or lymphatic system cancer, breast cancer, leukemia or ...

  4. Secondary malignant neoplasm - Wikipedia

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    Secondary malignant neoplasm is a malignant tumor whose cause is the treatment (usually radiation or chemotherapy) which was used for a prior tumor. [1] It must be distinguished from Metastasis from the prior tumor or a relapse from it since a secondary malignant neoplasm is a different tumor.

  5. Doctors remove football-sized heart tumor; the patient is now ...

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    The tumor weighed more than 1.5 pounds, which is, according to Northwestern Medicine, double the weight of an average heart and was completely covering DiLillo's heart.

  6. Rhabdomyoma - Wikipedia

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    A rhabdomyoma is a benign tumor of striated muscle. Rhabdomyomas may be either cardiac or extracardiac (occurring outside the heart). Extracardiac forms of rhabdomyoma are sub-classified into three distinct types: adult type, fetal type, and genital type. Cardiac rhabdomyomas are the most common primary tumor of the heart in infants and children.

  7. Primary tumors of the heart - Wikipedia

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    The most common primary tumor of the heart is the myxoma. In surgical series, the myxoma makes up as much as 77% of all primary tumors of the heart. [2] Less common tumors of the heart include: [3] Lipoma; Rhabdomyoma; Cystic tumor of the atrioventricular nodal region. [citation needed]

  8. EXCLUSIVE: 'Waiting for her to die': Baby with tumor on heart ...

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    Fetal heart tumors “are quite rare” says Dr. Jack Rychik, one of the doctors involved in Brailey Valenzuela’s surgery. A pericardial teratoma is a tumor but differs from a cancer. Still, it ...

  9. Mass effect (medicine) - Wikipedia

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    In oncology, the mass typically refers to a tumor. For example, cancer of the thyroid gland may cause symptoms due to compressions of certain structures of the head and neck; pressure on the laryngeal nerves may cause voice changes, narrowing of the windpipe may cause stridor, pressure on the gullet may cause dysphagia and so on.