metastasis
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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
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
"This could suggest that, to develop treatments for pancreatic cancer metastasis, the gene may not need to be entirely shut down to have a positive effect," says Feinberg.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 7, 2026
It is this which makes metastasis such an important element in the malignancy of tumors.
From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry
Three weeks later, she learnt she actually had stage three cancer with limited metastases.
From Barron's ● Feb. 15, 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
Although this difference was not statistically significant, those treated with pembrolizumab had a 42% lower chance of developing distant metastases, meaning cancer that spread to areas such as the liver, lungs, or bones.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2025
When the researchers analyzed 100 metastases from 84 patients, they found that over half of these tumors were chock-full of T cells.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 16, 2024
High amputation is unnecessary in the more benign sarcomas, and in the more malignant forms is usually unavailing to prevent a fatal issue either from local recurrence or from metastases in the lungs or elsewhere.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
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