Detection of cancer before distant metastasis

BMC Cancer

Table 4 Blood flow to different organ systems[61] and % of breast cancer patients (N = 432) with distant metastases in these organs at time of death[62]

Organ	Cardiac output (%)	Px w/mets (%)	% Px w mets/% cardiac output
Adrenal gl.	< 1	9	>9
Pleura	< 1	9	>9
Bone	5	12	2.40
Skin	9	7	0.78
Liver	27 ^a	13	0.48
Brain	13	2	0.15
Lung	100	13	0.13
Kidney	20	2	0.10
Muscle	15	0	0
Other	10	< 3	< 0.3

Included in the table are all organs which receive at least 5% of cardiac output, or in which metastases were found at autopsy in at least 4% of patients. Px w mets = patients with metastasis.
^a 21% via portal vein, 6% direct.

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