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How do you call the medical condition whereby a cancer patient presents symptoms of another type of cancer?

How do you call the medical condition whereby a cancer patient presents symptoms of another type of cancer that he does not have (ex. a pancreatic cancer patient with lung cancer symptoms)?

Public Comments

1. I am not sure exactly what term you mean. For example, if a person has prostate cancer, and that cancer spreads to the bones, the person is said to have prostate cancer that has metastasized to the bones, not bone cancer.
2. That is not a condition and there isn’t a name for it. Symptoms help in the diagnosis process. If a patient is seen in the emergency room for example, they may be admitted listing a few to several probable diagnosis based on tests done up to that point.