metastasis
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The relationship remained statistically significant even after the researchers accounted for well-established prognostic factors, including tumor stage, lymph node metastasis, surgical margins, chemotherapy, and nutritional status.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
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
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
The unreliability and incorrectness of this terminology is best illustrated by another form of leukæmic metastasis.
From Histology of the Blood Normal and Pathological by W. Myers
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
The researchers discovered that tumor EV-DNA is taken up by liver-resident immune cells called Kupffer cells, which are spurred by marks of damage in the EV-DNA to organize immune cell clusters that resist liver metastases.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 3, 2024
Although these tumours have been known to give rise to metastases, they are, as a rule, innocent and are to be treated as such.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
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