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For people with non small cell lung cancer the spread of cancer to the liver would classify it as a stage 4 cancer. The most common form of liver cancer is hepatocellular carcinoma. Pin On Etc A 4cm lung nodule. Lung cancer metastasis to liver . It originates either in the colon breast lung pancreas or the gastrointestinal tract of the person. And it is different from primary liver cancer a cancer that first started and developed in the liver. Lung cancer that has spread to the liver is called lung cancer metastatic to the liver in contrast to metastatic liver cancer which would refer to cancer that began in the liver and spreads to another region of the body. Using multiple mouse models researchers demonstrate that liver metastases are able to siphon activated cd8 t cells from the systemic circulation and recruit immunosuppressive macrophages capable of promoting t cell death within the liver. This type of metastatic cancer is common in the advanced stages of lung cancer.