metastasize

Scientists still do not fully understand what controls a cancer cell's ability to metastasize, but answering this question is essential for improving patient care.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 21, 2026

That’s manifested in a widespread selloff that has started to metastasize beyond purveyors of enterprise software offerings.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 14, 2026

My mom’s cancer was diagnosed late and she was bounced from one provider to another, ultimately allowing her disease to metastasize past the point of no return.

From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2024

Every man in the film is repellent, even the hunks, and as the film goes on, they metastasize into an anonymous graying horde.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2024

Without those limitations, copyright law will bloat and metastasize into a claim of monopoly, or at least control, over the very architectures of our communications technology.

From The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind by Boyle, James

Four months after leaving office, Joe Biden was diagnosed with prostate cancer that had metastasized to his bones.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 1, 2026

Over the past year, the Epstein files have metastasized into a defining symbol of elite impunity.

From Salon ● Apr. 13, 2026

Although he went into remission, the cancer later returned and metastasized.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2025

Investors’ minds inevitably flashed back to 2008, when the implosion of the U.S. mortgage-backed securities market quickly metastasized globally.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2025

In one patient, Henrietta’s cancer cells metastasized to her lymph nodes.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

Sakaguchi said that he wanted to continue researching how to enhance immune responses in cancer and to potentially prevent cancer cells from spreading and metastasizing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2025

Prof Rahul Roychoudhuri, from the University of Cambridge, told me: "What we've discovered is that aspirin might work, surprisingly, by unleashing the power of the immune system to recognize and kill metastasizing cancer cells."

From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2025

The threat “has been metastasizing across the country,” Wray testified in 2021, and “it’s not going away anytime soon.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 27, 2025

Meantime, Al Qaeda and Islamic State affiliates are metastasizing throughout the region, according to U.N. and U.S. intelligence assessments.

From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2024

Marley had written that line a year before his death, while an operable melanoma was, at that moment, metastasizing to his lungs, liver, stomach and brain.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover