metastasis
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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
The strategy may also help prevent metastasis, a crucial stage in cancer progression.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 12, 2026
The most common are concussion, overexertion, exhaustion, rapid changes of temperature, ingestion of certain feeds, purgatives, and the oft-mentioned metastasis.
From Special Report on Diseases of the Horse by Charles B. Michener
Three weeks later, she learnt she actually had stage three cancer with limited metastases.
From Barron's ● Feb. 15, 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
"Between cancer, brain metastases, immune disease and neurodegeneration, millions of patients could someday benefit from targeted brain therapies like the one we've developed."
From Science Daily ● Dec. 5, 2024
The researchers discovered that tumor EV-DNA is taken up by liver-resident immune cells called Kupffer cells, which are spurred by marks of damage in the EV-DNA to organize immune cell clusters that resist liver metastases.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 3, 2024
Although these tumours have been known to give rise to metastases, they are, as a rule, innocent and are to be treated as such.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
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