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NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms

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intravasation  listen  (in-TRA-vuh-SAY-shun)

  The movement of a cell or a foreign substance through the wall of a blood or lymph vessel into the vessel itself. In cancer, this is how cancer cells pass through a vessel wall and enter the blood or lymph systems. It is one way that cancer spreads in the body.