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
Several genes known for tumor-suppressing functions became more active, while genes linked to cancer progression and metastasis became less active.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 29, 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
The most common are concussion, overexertion, exhaustion, rapid changes of temperature, ingestion of certain feeds, purgatives, and the oft-mentioned metastasis.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener
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
"It shows just how well the GPS ensured that they would only work in the brain. The same strategy even worked to clear brain metastases of breast cancer."
From Science Daily ● Dec. 5, 2024
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
After such free removal these tumours show little tendency to recur and metastases are rare.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles
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