Sentence examples for lethal spread from inspiring English sources

The overcrowded camp has become an incubator for disease, Mr. Critchley said, and with the monsoon season peaking in late March and early April, medical workers fear a lethal spread of acute diarrhea.

In fact, senescence or apoptosis of tumor cells entering target organs prevents the lethal spread of the vast majority of intravasated tumor cells [2], [3], [4].

This value is remarkably close to the value for the probability of the lethal spread of breast cancer cells from the primary mass in the breast when the primary mass is also 5.3 mm (pBC-overall=7.49 × 10−09), as calculated by extrapolation of equation (3).

As we have reported previously (Michaelson et al, 2002), a similar decline in the probability of spread per cell is also seen as tumours become larger for the overall probability of lethal spread of breast cancer cells from the primary site in the breast to the periphery (pBC-overall, Figure 1).

Similarly, if about 1% patients with a different type of tumour, but of the same size (N=10 cells), have died of metastatic disease (L=0.01), then it follows that the probability of lethal spread (p) is about 1 event of spread for every hundred billion cells (p≈L/N=0.01/10).

For example, the probability of lethal spread of melanoma cells from the primary site in the skin to the periphery (pMEL-overall) is ∼1 event of spread for every 500 cells for melanomas of 0.1 mm, but 100,000-fold lower (∼1 event of spread for every 10 cells) for 12 mm tumours.

Better yet, the Cyclones rank fourth in the country in points per game (80) and are lethal spreading teams out.

This may lead to the rupture of small blood vessels in or around small undetected breast cancers, and the lethal distant spread of malignant cells.

Aggressive interest rate cuts have not done much to contain the lethal contagion spreading in credit and capital markets.

But even in this bloody conflict, the murder of Karen Woo and her colleagues is a particularly shocking and senseless act, a bleak reminder of the lethal savagery spreading across the country.

There are rare instances where the focus is on the consequences of a pandemic rather than who is to blame – most notably The Andromeda Strain or last year's star-heavy Contagion, which plausibly showed the rapid disintegration of society as a lethal infection spreads round the world.