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
When fever exists first, and terminates in dropsy, who has proved, that there existed no local irritation producing the fever, and that the hydropic irritation has not supervened by metastasis.
From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Franklin Bache
"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
"We have identified the novel protein FOXF1 that stabilizes blood vessels inside the lung tumors, decreases intertumoral hypoxia and prevents lung cancer metastases," explained Dr. Kalin, the senior author on this study.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 16, 2024
And these metastases are due to functional requirements—for example, the forward position of sternum and thoracic organs in fish is an adaptation to swimming.
From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
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