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metastasis

[muh-tas-tuh-sis] / məˈtæs tə sɪs /


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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

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

This process ultimately reduced tumor growth and limited metastasis in the mice.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 10, 2026

A further application of the hypothesis of metastasis will be noticed below in connection with the determination of the sternum of fishes.

From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell

Three weeks later, she learnt she actually had stage three cancer with limited metastases.

From Barron's ● Feb. 15, 2026

Even in mice with advanced disease and existing metastases, the antibody improved the balance between M1 and M2 macrophages.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 22, 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 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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