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Answer:

1. True
   Ascites refers to the accumulation of fluid in the abdominal cavity. The liver is located in the abdominal cavity. It is quite possible, therefore, that cancerous cells originating in the stomach can break through the stomach wall, enter the fluid in the abdominal cavity, and eventually attach themselves to some other organ housed within the abdominal cavity.
2. False
   This would be an example of edema, the abnormal accumulation of fluid in connective tissues.
3. False
   The pleural cavity and the cranial cavity are not connected. Therefore, there is no way for fluid that originated in the pleural cavity to enter the cranial cavity.

Brain metastasis is possible, but not by this route.