Probably the most compact & concise way to answer your question is to shine a light on what the words are in
the rest of the sentence...a part of the sentence which is often left of simply for brevity and because it seems commonly understood, but every now and then we need to be more clear and precise in the explanations...
The classification is based on the risk of recurrence...so a "high-risk" case means that there is a "
high risk of recurrence following primary treatment."
Once there is recurrence following primary treatment, there likely ("likely," but not necessarily "certainly") is metastasis. If the case was originally (incorrectly) thought to be local, then the detectable metastasis may take some considerable time (months or often years; see the recurrence data I posted to you yesterday, for example...remember 65 months for 50% probability of recurrence for the 4+3 with TP5) to be clearly observed. Some patients have no recurrence, ever. Once there is metastasis, however, the cancer is often controllable, but not curable.
Of course, an even shorter, more concise answer to your question is simply, "yes"...but adding just a few words helps to explain why.
Post Edited (NKinney) : 12/19/2017 2:07:35 PM (GMT-7)