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metastasis

[muh-tas-tuh-sis] / məˈtæs tə sɪs /


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The technology is a therapeutic vaccine, meaning it can help prevent recurrence and metastasis, but it can’t keep someone from getting melanoma in the first place.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026

On Wednesday the company said that a large randomized trial met its goal of preventing cancer recurrence and metastasis, though it didn’t publish the data.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

This process, known as metastasis, is responsible for roughly 90% of deaths from the disease.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026

Chronically high IL-6 levels have also been linked to recurrence and metastasis of multiple types of cancer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026

It is important to note this hypothesis of a "metastasis" which Geoffroy makes, for it is the key to the understanding of many of the far-fetched homologies which he tries to establish.

From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell

Three weeks later, she learnt she actually had stage three cancer with limited metastases.

From Barron's ● Feb. 15, 2026

Lung metastases indicate that cancer has entered the bloodstream and are linked to worse outcomes for patients.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 22, 2026

A major validation of this approach came from a melanoma trial that delivered results few expected: a 49% reduction in cancer recurrence and a 62% reduction in deadly distant metastases.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2025

"It shows just how well the GPS ensured that they would only work in the brain. The same strategy even worked to clear brain metastases of breast cancer."

From Science Daily ● Dec. 5, 2024

In general, it may be said that periosteal tumours are less favourable than central ones, because they are more liable to give rise to metastases.

From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson


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