Skip to main content
An official website of the United States government
Español

in-transit metastasis

(in-TRAN-zit meh-TAS-tuh-sis)
A type of metastasis in which skin cancer spreads through a lymph vessel and begins to grow more than 2 centimeters away from the primary tumor but before it reaches the nearest lymph node.
Search NCI's Dictionary of Cancer Terms