Metastasis Sentence Examples

The pathologist who evaluates cancer cells in biopsied tissue designates the cancer as being stage I, II, III, or IV, in terms of the degree of metastasis.

Thirty-one patients had a sentinel lymph node positive for melanoma metastasis.

The smallest detected metastasis was a micrometastasis with a diameter of 0.9 cm.

Primary bone cancer is much less common than bone metastasis.

It invades surrounding tissue and spreads to nearby or distant organs (metastasis).

In about 15 percent of cases, physicians find some degree of cancer spread (metastasis).

For example, research in 2003 found that a combination of chemotherapy and gene therapy stopped breast cancer and its metastasis (spread to other organs or parts of the body).

Since MTC is slow growing, metastasis may not be obvious.

Metastasis is very serious in MTC because chemotherapy and radiation therapy are not effective in controlling its spread.

The most common sites in the body where metastasis occurs are the liver and lungs.