Metastasis: Pleura Lesion
Cancers are sorted by a combination of rarity, overall frequency of metastases, and predilection for this site. Change metastases list to be ungrouped by characteristic.
Unspecified Characteristics
| Cancer | Frequency | Comments |
| Breast Adenocarcinoma | Uncommon |  |
| Prostate Adenocarcinoma | Rare | |
| Colorectal Adenocarcinoma | Rare | much more common in rectal cancer |
| Melanoma | Uncommon | |
| Adrenal Cortical Carcinoma | Common | |
| Basal Cell Carcinoma | Common | |
| Thymoma | Common | so-called 'drop' metastases (i.e. local seeding of the pleura) |
| Renal Cell Carcinoma | Very Rare | |
| Endometrial Cancer | Rare | |
| Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma | Rare | |
| Testicular Cancer | Very Rare |  |
| Cholangiocarcinoma | Very Rare | |
| Gallbladder Cancer | Very Rare | |
| Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma | Very Rare | |
| Astrocytoma | Uncommon | |
Effusion
| Cancer | Frequency | Comments |
| Small Cell Lung Cancer | Common | malignant pleural effusion |
| Epithelial Ovarian Cancer | Common | |
| Cervical Cancer | Rare | effusion more common than frank pleural involvement |
| Hodgkin's Lymphoma | Uncommon | Pleural effusions occur much more often than direct invasion and typically are not malignant (thus do not confer a worse prognosis). |
Mass
| Cancer | Frequency | Comments |
| Hodgkin's Lymphoma | Uncommon | Pleural effusions occur much more often than direct invasion and typically are not malignant (thus do not confer a worse prognosis). |