How to Use metastasis in a Sentence

metastasis

noun
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  • It could be used to stop metastasis, the spread of cancer.
    — Lisa Fields, Discover Magazine, 8 May 2018
  • The plan, so far, was that my mom would get a few months of chemotherapy to shrink the lung metastases enough to remove them.
    — Meredith Goldstein, The Cut, 16 Apr. 2018
  • What are the symptoms of bone metastasis in breast cancer?
    — Jessie Van Amburg, Health.com, 15 Sep. 2021
  • There’s no further evidence of metastases in the brain.
    — Marie McCullough, Philly.com, 3 July 2018
  • Surgery and chemo helped for two years, when a small brain metastasis was detected.
    — Marie McCullough, Philly.com, 3 July 2018
  • The hormone therapy is likely to stop the growth of the bone metastases, perhaps even shrink the lesions, Watson said.
    — Ann Doss Helms, charlotteobserver, 24 May 2018
  • The mouse tests can predict metastasis and whether a drug slows recurrence.
    — Max G. Levy, Wired, 9 Mar. 2022
  • Five years prior to Mom’s death, my father passed away from a brain tumor, a metastasis from the cancer melanoma.
    — Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • The higher the number, the more invasive the tumor is into the dermis and to other organs of the body in a process called metastasis.
    — Enrique Torchia, Fortune Well, 20 Aug. 2023
  • The result of the injection was the growth of cancerous nodules, which led to metastasis in one person.
    — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 11 Jan. 2021
  • Suzanne Somers’ died of breast cancer with metastasis to the brain, according to her death certificate obtained by the Blast.
    — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Among the three groups there was no difference in cancer recurrence, metastasis to distant parts of the body or death rates.
    — Denise Gellene, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2019
  • While believed to help brain health, metabolism, and more, the pill may also increase the chance of both breast cancer and brain metastasis, the new study warns.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 21 Nov. 2022
  • The work felt useful, and the research–on the role of microRNA in metastasis–was genuinely compelling.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2022
  • Sometimes this kind of metastasis signals a shift in the underlying truth—though there is as yet no way of knowing for sure.
    — Joe Pompeo, vanityfair.com, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Mice that got neither treatment in the wake of surgery saw the rapid return of melanoma around the surgical site, as well as the appearance of metastases far from the original tumor.
    — Melissa Healy, latimes.com, 15 Feb. 2018
  • When a cancer has progressed to the point of metastasis, a person can start losing weight without intending to.
    — Jessie Van Amburg, Health.com, 20 Sep. 2021
  • Now Goodall faced a new diagnosis: Stage 4 cancer with bone metastases.
    — Ann Doss Helms, charlotteobserver, 24 May 2018
  • The first step of metastasis for any type of cancer—not specifically breast cancer—is when cancer spreads to nearby healthy tissue in the body.
    — Jessie Van Amburg, Health.com, 14 Sep. 2021
  • But most of the time, a single tumor is not deadly—cancer typically kills by spreading through the body, a process known as metastasis.
    — Douglas Main, National Geographic, 8 Nov. 2019
  • The drugs bind to the Interleukin receptors and block their signals, slowing metastasis.
    — Carrie Wells, baltimoresun.com, 16 June 2017
  • For example, more than half of people diagnosed with MBC have bone metastasis, which happens when breast cancer spreads to sites like the spinal cord, ribs, and pelvis.
    — Petra Guglielmetti, Glamour, 12 Nov. 2022
  • His own bone marrow was seeded with a metastasis that had migrated from an unknown site somewhere in his body.
    — Madeline Drexler, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2020
  • Stage 1 lung cancer is diagnosed when there is no evidence of cancer in nearby lymph nodes and no signs of metastasis.
    — Sanja Jelic, Verywell Health, 22 Sep. 2023
  • The company will also use the software to help build an algorithm for predicting the metastasis of prostate cancer.
    — Richard Nieva, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
  • The team found that about 95 percent of the cancers that formed were in fact multicolored and therefore derived from multiple cells (lung metastasis, above).
    — Viviane Callier, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2016
  • These are cells that have broken off a primary tumour and which, if left unchecked, might lodge in various parts of the body and turn into secondary cancers, a process called metastasis.
    — The Economist, 31 Aug. 2017
  • Pictured: a screen grab from the team's research data mapping cancer metastasis.
    — Kieron Monks, CNN, 26 Sep. 2019
  • However, no lymph nodes will be affected, and there will be no evidence of metastasis.
    — Sanja Jelic, Verywell Health, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Clones that develop mutations conferring resistance to anti-cancer therapies are the ones that flourish and form metastases.
    — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023

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