# How does cancer spread through the body?

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED-Ed
- Speaker: Ivan Seah Yu Jun
- Year: 2014
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Medicine and health, Teaching and learning
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/ivan_seah_yu_jun_how_does_cancer_spread_through_the_body)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Cancer usually begins with one tumor in a specific area of the body. But if the tumor is not removed, cancer has the ability to spread to nearby organs as well as places far away from the origin, like the brain. How does cancer move to these new areas and why are some organs more likely to get infected than others? Ivan Seah Yu Jun explains the three common routes of metastasis. \[Directed by Andrew Foerster, narrated by Addison Anderson\].

## Lectures

1. [How does cancer spread through the body?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/ivan_seah_yu_jun_how_does_cancer_spread_through_the_body/67d43915edb4), 5 min (TED's player)