How to Use metastasis in a Sentence

metastasis

noun
  • These are all metastases of my melanoma.
    — Raechal Shewfelt, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Oct. 2025
  • This process is called metastasis.
    — Julie Phillippi, The Conversation, 21 July 2025
  • Surgery and chemo helped for two years, when a small brain metastasis was detected.
    — Marie McCullough, Philly.com, 3 July 2018
  • The brain and lungs are the most common sites of metastasis for melanoma, experts confirmed.
    — Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 24 Apr. 2025
  • The mouse tests can predict metastasis and whether a drug slows recurrence.
    — Max G. Levy, Wired, 9 Mar. 2022
  • The brain and lungs are the most common sites of metastasis for melanoma, experts confirmed.
    — Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • The plan, so far, was that my mom would get a few months of chemotherapy to shrink the lung metastases enough to remove them.
    — Meredith Goldstein, The Cut, 16 Apr. 2018
  • The virus can also turn into squamous cell cancer with metastases.
    — Angela Haupt, Time, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Towle also shared that her oncologist had told her that the metastases in her liver had grown.
    — Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 6 May 2026
  • The stage indicates the size and type of tumor and the amount of spread (metastasis) that has occurred.
    — Corey Whelan, Verywell Health, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Healthcare providers often detect them as bone metastasis (cancer that spreads to the backbones of the spine).
    — Joy Emeh, Health, 3 July 2024
  • However, the untreated men had a higher risk of metastases.
    — Howard Wolinsky, STAT, 21 Jan. 2026
  • His own bone marrow was seeded with a metastasis that had migrated from an unknown site somewhere in his body.
    — Madeline Drexler, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2020
  • Five years prior to Mom’s death, my father passed away from a brain tumor, a metastasis from the cancer melanoma.
    — Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • Sometimes this kind of metastasis signals a shift in the underlying truth—though there is as yet no way of knowing for sure.
    — Joe Pompeo, vanityfair.com, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Among the three groups there was no difference in cancer recurrence, metastasis to distant parts of the body or death rates.
    — Denise Gellene, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2019
  • Over half of the patients whose cancer spreads from its site of origin will develop metastases, or secondary tumors, in the lung.
    — New Atlas, 1 Jan. 2025
  • One was a collection of tumors and metastases taken directly from a patient.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 Oct. 2017
  • So far, the metastases in his spine have significantly reduced, according to the scans.
    — Lexi Lane, PEOPLE, 25 Apr. 2026
  • The result of the injection was the growth of cancerous nodules, which led to metastasis in one person.
    — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 11 Jan. 2021
  • When a cancer has progressed to the point of metastasis, a person can start losing weight without intending to.
    — Jessie Van Amburg, Health.com, 20 Sep. 2021
  • Stage 1 lung cancer is diagnosed when there is no evidence of cancer in nearby lymph nodes and no signs of metastasis.
    — Sanja Jelic, Verywell Health, 22 Sep. 2023
  • The hormone therapy is likely to stop the growth of the bone metastases, perhaps even shrink the lesions, Watson said.
    — Ann Doss Helms, charlotteobserver, 24 May 2018
  • But most of the time, a single tumor is not deadly—cancer typically kills by spreading through the body, a process known as metastasis.
    — Douglas Main, National Geographic, 8 Nov. 2019
  • Following the initial surgery, Mellencamp revealed that more tumors were found in her heart and lungs, which were metastases of melanoma.
    — Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 23 Apr. 2025
  • The first step of metastasis for any type of cancer—not specifically breast cancer—is when cancer spreads to nearby healthy tissue in the body.
    — Jessie Van Amburg, Health.com, 14 Sep. 2021
  • In mice with melanoma, the ones that were given aspirin had less frequent metastases of the cancer compared to those who were not given the medication.
    — Melissa Rudy, Fox News, 12 Mar. 2025
  • The higher the number, the more invasive the tumor is into the dermis and to other organs of the body in a process called metastasis.
    — Enrique Torchia, Fortune Well, 20 Aug. 2023
  • The drugs bind to the Interleukin receptors and block their signals, slowing metastasis.
    — Carrie Wells, baltimoresun.com, 16 June 2017
  • The company will also use the software to help build an algorithm for predicting the metastasis of prostate cancer.
    — Richard Nieva, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022

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