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Metastasis refers to the spread of a disease (usually cancer) from one part of the body to another. It can also be used in a more general sense to describe the spreading or transfer of something, such as information or ideas. Example: The doctor explained that the cancer had spread through metastasis and had now reached her lymph nodes.
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Metastasis
noun
The transference of a bodily function or disease to another part of the body, specifically the development of a secondary area of disease remote from the original site, as with some cancers.
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He is the first to see the test results for an 84-year-old man, confirming liver metastasis.
Taking chemical aim at the CXCR2 receptor, or developing drugs that reduce the secretion by bone of CXCL5 might slow or even halt breast-cancer metastasis.
Their invention, which they describe in Biomaterials, is a lab-on-a-chip that mimics the metastasis of breast cancer into bone marrow.One of the mysteries of metastasis is why migrant cells from different sorts of primaries prefer to set up home in particular types of secondary tissue.
Making it one was a mistake .Alida Vracic, head of a Sarajevo think-tank called Populari has written a response to Gerald Knaus, the head of ESI, called the "metastasis of nihilism".
Dr DePinho refers to it, jokingly, as metastasis, since a clone of his primary creation will be taking root elsewhere in the country.As to which five cancers to attack, that decision will be made by the middle of 2012.
Stopping metastasis would thus be a great achievement.
That would be one benign sort of metastasis.
That may, eventually, result in less metastasis, fewer secondaries and longer lives for patients.
Because of the high rate of metastasis of squamous cell carcinomas, early diagnosis is important, especially in a middle-aged or elderly person with a skin ulcer that fails to heal.
For example, because the lungs are usually the first organ through which the blood flows after leaving most organs, they are the most-common site of metastasis.
For example, in a study of breast cancer patients whose disease had spread to the brain, defects in some 17 genes were correlated with brain metastasis.
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