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
The discovery reveals a previously unknown way that cancer cells left behind after therapy may contribute to metastasis.
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
"These clones were then evaluated in vitro and in a mouse model to observe their ability to migrate through a real biological filter and generate metastases," adds Arwen Conod.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 21, 2026
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 vast majority of tumor mortality is still due to metastases, and it almost trumps us working in difficult-to-reach cancers, such as melanoma and pancreatic cancer."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2025
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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Cell Biology - Middle School
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Cell Biology - High School
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