What are Metastatic Cancers to the Heart?

Metastatic Cancers to the Heart
Hematoxylin and eosin and S-100 staining of the tumors of the thigh treated surgically in 1990 (A, B), recurrent tumor operated in 1995 (C, D) and metastatic tumor in heart (E, F) and lung (G, H) at autopsy in 2007. A, C, E, G: Hematoxylin and eosin staining; B, D, F, H: S-100 immunohistochemistry. Histological factors such as cellularity, degree of nuclear atypia, mitotic counts, and S-100 immunoreactivity were similar among the specimens. Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor associated with neurofibromatosis type 1, with metastasis to the heart: a case report. Kitamura M, Wada N, Nagata S, Iizuka N, Jin YF, Tomoeda M, Yuki M, Naka N, Araki N, Yutani C, Tomita Y - Diagnostic pathology (2010). Not Altered. CC.

Metastatic cancers to the heart are malignancies that originate from other organs, but travel to the heart and develop there. Note that cardiac and noncardiac neoplasms may affect the heart by altering conduction leading to conduction abnormalities, causing emboli, or causing obstruction.