text: what is the prospect of metastatic carcinoma axilary lymph nods?   if i understand you, you are asking, what are the chances that  a carcinoma of the axillary lymph nodes will metastasize...well, with all lymph cancers metastasis is a likelihood, but if it is yet early in the development of the disease treatment can still be affected. remember, even if it does metastasize, modern medicine is marvelous and it's better to be down a few nodes than it is to be down a few dozen years.