For example, if kidney cancer spreads to the lungs, the cancer cells in the lungs are actually kidney cancer cells. The disease is metastatic kidney cancer, not lung cancer. It is treated as kidney cancer, not lung cancer. Doctors sometimes call the new tumor metastatic or distant disease.
Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Rock Bottom. Rock Bottom is the second solo album by former Soft Machine drummer Robert Wyatt. It was released on 26 July 1974 by Virgin Records.
Those who are addicted to alcohol or drugs are prevented from hitting rock bottom because of denial. This is a defense mechanism that people use when there is something that they do not want to face. All humans will have used denial to some degree or another, but in addicts it can be particularly strong.