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.
Contemporary Examples. 1  Two things, however, were more concerning than thatâwhat should have beenârock-bottom moment. 2  The rock-bottom foundation on which my tradition stands is George Orwell. 3  The country was at the rock-bottom point of its worst economic crisis in the lifetimes of every one of the men in that room.