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Strike action from Thursday 27 June to Tuesday 2 July 2024

Junior doctors at The Christie will strike from 7am on Thursday 27 June until 7am on Tuesday 2 July 2024.

We are proactively contacting patients with appointments that may be affected. If you have an appointment on any of these dates, please continue to come to The Christie and our other centres as planned, unless we contact you to tell you otherwise. Please do not call to check if your appointment is still going ahead.

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Secondary cancers (metastases)

When a cancer starts in one place in the body and spreads elsewhere, this is a secondary cancer or a ‘metastasis’.

The place in the body where a cancer first starts is the ‘primary cancer’. Sometimes, cancer cells can break off from the primary cancer and spread elsewhere in the body. Cancer can then grow in another part of the body.

When this happens, this is secondary (metastatic) cancer.

Secondary cancer isn’t the same thing as cancer coming back in the same place where it first started. This is a local recurrence of the cancer and doesn’t mean the cancer has spread.

Depending on where the cancer has spread to you, we have different information for you to read. Our pages on secondary cancer include:

Last updated: March 2023

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