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
This process, known as metastasis, is responsible for roughly 90% of deaths from the disease.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026
I have thought that its origin might be accounted for on the principle of metastasis of morbid material.
From Report on Surgery to the Santa Clara County Medical Society by Joseph Bradford Cox
"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
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
Bearing in mind that in none of the other 39 cases were myelocytes demonstrated, one does not hesitate to explain their presence in the blood in this single case by the metastases in the bone-marrow.
From Histology of the Blood Normal and Pathological by W. Myers
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Cell Biology - Middle School
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