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Krukenberg tumor

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A tumor of the ovary caused by the spread of stomach cancer.

When the stomach cancer spreads to an ovary, the tumor in the ovary is called a Krukenberg tumor.

(This tumor, named for a doctor, is not a different disease; it is metastatic stomach cancer.

The cancer cells in a Krukenberg tumor are stomach cancer cells, the same as the cancer cells in the primary tumor).

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