Questions is a bit off, If there is cancer in the lungs and liver, its unlikely from either of those organs. But i think i get u
Once cells lose their regulatory settings, and end up dividing endlessly (cancer), to the point that they spread around the body (metastatic), the cell no longer looks like what it started as
So if it was a liver cell that became cancer, and traveled to the lung, and they took a piece of that tissue(biopsy), it doesnt look like a liver cell
sometimes sequencing or biochemical assay can determine the origin (IHC) but sometimes the cell is so deranged that its a mystery
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