metastatic

Adjective

Meaning

Of, pertaining to, or caused by, metastasis; as, a metastatic abscess; the metastatic processes of growth.

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Some cancers are curable, while others are highly incurable. The spectrum is enormous. Metastatic pancreatic cancer is a highly incurable disease, whereas some leukemia forms are very curable. There is a big difference between one form and another. Siddhartha Mukherjee

For her, this was a metaphor, he reminded himself. Though maybe he was a metaphor too, inside his head with the Black Gang. A metaphor gone metastatic. Lois McMaster Bujold

My mother died of metastatic colorectal cancer shortly before three P.M. on Christmas Day of 2008. I don't know the exact time of her death, because none of us thought to look at a clock for a while after she stopped breathing. Meghan O'Rourke

metastatic growth Source: Internet

Death Jack Lemmon's grave in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery Lemmon died of metastatic cancer of the bladder on June 27, 2001. citation He had been fighting the disease, privately, for two years before his death. Source: Internet

Abrams TA, et al, Chemotherapy usage patterns in a US-wide cohort of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer. Source: Internet

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