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
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
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
Next, they performed single cell RNA sequencing to measure gene expression in almost 100,000 cells from six metastases.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 16, 2024
The prognosis varies with the type of the disease, with its location—the vertebræ, skull, pelvis, and lower jaw being specially unfavourable—with the multiplicity of the lesions, and with the development of endocarditis and internal metastases.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
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