metastasis

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A spiritual change, as during baptism.

A change in the location of a disease, as from one part to another.

The act or process by which matter is taken up by cells or tissues and is transformed into other matter; in plants, the act or process by which are produced all of those chemical changes in the constituents of the plant which are not accompanied by a production of organic matter; metabolism.

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In addition, a combination of hypoxia in the tumor and a cytokine produced by macrophages induces tumor cells to decrease production of a protein that blocks metastasis and thereby assists spread of cancer cells. Source: Internet

Patients receiving palliative radiation to treat uncomplicated painful bone metastasis should not receive more than a single fraction of radiation. Source: Internet

Brain metastasis was suspected, and a brain MRI was performed that demonstrated three new brain metastases as well as enlargement and hyperenhancement of the pituitary gland. Source: Internet

His group has also established a culturing method to grow tumors, and tumor adjacent-normal, and metastasis to genomically characterize tumors/metastasis at single cell level. Source: Internet

In the past, if only a single metastasis was present in the liver, surgery was rarely considered to remove the tumor, but newer radiation therapy techniques are improving upon this. Source: Internet

A new study helps explain why cancer metastasis is so hard to stop. Source: Internet

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