A medical condition characterized by the widespread growth or spread of cancer throughout the body, or the state of being affected by cancer.
From Greek 'karkinos' (crab, cancer) + '-osis' (condition or disease state). The suffix '-osis' indicates a pathological condition, making this a formal medical term for advanced cancerous disease.
The '-osis' ending in medical terms usually means something has gone wrong and become a chronic condition—so carcinosis literally describes the moment when individual cancer cells have taken over and become a systemic disease.
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