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When prostate cancer spreads to other parts of your body, doctors say it is "metastatic" or that it has "metastasized." Metastasis is the medical term for cancer that has spread beyond the place where it started. It's still prostate cancer, even when it spreads. For example, metastatic prostate cancer in a bone in your hip is not bone cancer. It has the same prostate cancer cells the original tumor had, and your treatment options are the same as when cancer was only in your prostate gland. Metastatic prostate cancer is an advanced form of cancer. Although it can't be cured, it can be treated and controlled.