metastatic
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- adjective
- /ˌmɛtəˈstætɪk/
- Specialized
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metastásico
- It's when the cancer spreads around the body, the metastatic process, that things get grim.
- metastatic disease
- metastatic carcinoma
- metastatic tumor
It's when the cancer spreads around the body, the metastatic process, that things get grim.
- It's when the cancer spreads around the body, the metastatic process, that things get grim.
- To ask the question in patients with metastatic Melanoma, what would be the impact on median survival and overall survival?
- We have cancer focus on metastatic Melanoma and immunotherapy response.
Examples
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So to put this in perspective, you needed to have a number of changes to go from an ordinary cell to a metastatic cancer cell.
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Patients diagnosed with stage IV metastatic cancer often face significant treatment challenges.
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In each of the six patients, expression was greater in the metastatic tumor than in the primary tumor.
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For example, bone is the most common metastatic site for prostate cancer.
Academic text (2012) -
The patient was subsequently found to have probable metastatic disease, but he declined further intervention.
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The five-year survival rate for Treya's general type of metastatic breast cancer is exactly zero percent.
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The tumor was identified as a poorly differentiated metastatic adenocarcinoma, and she was referred to our institution.
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Abdominal ultrasound confirmed evidence of hepatic metastatic disease within the liver; the kidneys were normal.
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The doctor explained that my mother had metastatic cancer, meaning it had spread to her bones.
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Research shows that chemotherapy may only provide temporary relief for those with metastatic melanoma.
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Morphology
metastatic = metastasis (transparent) = metastasis + ic
A regular adjectival formation from the medical noun 'metastasis' meaning 'relating to metastasis'; the relation is direct if the learner knows 'metastasis'.
Etymology
The word metastatic comes from Greek parts meta- meaning 'change' and -stasis meaning 'standing' or 'place', so it literally means 'change of place'. That's why metastatic describes disease that has moved from one part of the body to another.