Metastases

These tumors could also spread from one site to another, causing outcroppings of the disease—called metastases—in distant sites, such as the bones, the brain, or the lungs. ❋ Siddhartha Mukherjee (2010)

Bone metastases occurs when the disease progresses to a patient's bones. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Leksell Gamma Knife is viewed as the gold standard for accuracy in treating intra-cranial targets, such as metastases and functional disorders. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"metastases" Sometimes it's every cell for itself! ❋ Unknown (1972)

Elevated CRP was associated with a higher rate of metastases and larger tumors. ❋ Ann Lukits (2011)

Surgery to remove an early-stage prostate tumor reduces the risk of metastases and death in patients, compared with watchful waiting, in which doctors keep a close eye on the cancer. ❋ Ann Lukits (2011)

After arriving home, he began a cocktail of 17 vitamins and supplements; he aggressively visualized that the metastases were rats, and he played and re-ran the mental picture of the act of chasing them and beating them down with a club. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Then, one day, in the most unexpected and unusual way, I was diagnosed with a rare and still incurable cancer, discovered accidentally: pancreatic neuroendocrine cancer, with metastases in various parts of my abdomen. ❋ Hana Hrabec-Snyder (2011)

Use a CT scan, an MRI or a bone scan to look for metastases (spread of the tumor) ❋ Unknown (2010)

Medicine is full of wonderful aphorisms which I love, like, "beware of the woman with the glass eye and the big liver" (which refers to the fact that melanoma of the eye, a common cause for an eye to be removed, can be followed many years later with liver metastases). ❋ Unknown (2010)

Women with microscopic metastases in their SLNs can also be spared from certain more aggressive treatments that were thought to increase their survival rates, he said. ❋ Unknown (2011)

• Prostate cancer: Surgery to remove an early-stage prostate tumor reduces the risk of metastases and death in patients, compared with watchful waiting, in which doctors keep a close eye on the cancer. ❋ Ann Lukits (2011)

A 2007 study found just 20 percent of patients who had received a liver or multivisceral transplantation to treat neuroendocrine tumors saw no additional metastases after five years, though the Mount Sinai study, which tracked 11 patients, found only one person remained disease-free five years after receiving a new liver. ❋ The Huffington Post (2011)

The bad thing is the tumor could grow back from the place where it was taken from, and the rest of the cancer mets (metastases) remain in my lungs and chest cavity (lymph nodes) and must be dealt with. ❋ Robert Schwab (2011)

A late-stage study presented during the European Multidisciplinary Cancer Congress in Stockholm over the weekend confirmed that Bayer's Alpharadin, or radium-223 chloride, significantly prolongs the life of patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer and symptomatic bone metastases. ❋ Natascha Divac (2011)

I think I'd have to say it was highly controversial whether these occult hidden metastases would be clinically relevant, said study author Dr. Armando Giuliano, chief of surgical oncology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. ❋ Unknown (2011)