adjective
definition
Relating to, or producing metastasis
Examples of metastatic in a Sentence
Metastatic peritoneal adenocarcinoma is the most likely diagnosis in a patient with malignant ascites.
Although the metastatic rate in this series was 27 %, the prognosis is considered much more favorable than that of other hepatic malignancies.
A structured assessment was carried out of the Novartis economic evaluation of imatinib for unresectable and/or metastatic gist.
One study gave melatonin at night in combination with the drug triptorelin to men with metastatic prostate cancer.
This strategy has recently been shown to be effective for metastatic neuroblastoma.
Eight of nine primary tumors and 41 metastatic lesions were detected by 131I-MIBG scintigraphy.
All costs for treatment in relation to the primary presenting tumor and metastatic spread will be excluded including any complications relating to the cancer.
When they have moved to a new location in the body they are called metastatic tumors.
If one suspects metastatic disease, a complete metastatic work-up must be done prior to surgery to prevent unnecessary surgery.
In no case was orbital or metastatic retinoblastoma detected at follow-up.
The included trials were conducted in women with metastatic breast cancer after the failure of the tamoxifen treatment.
In advanced metastatic cancer when cure is unlikely, palliative surgery aims at reducing symptoms.
About 50 percent of metastatic cancers that infiltrate the central nervous system and about 10 percent of central nervous system tumors will shed cells into the CSF.
An osteosarcoma may be localized or metastatic.
A metastatic osteosarcoma has spread to the lungs, to bones not directly connected to the bone in which the tumor originated, or to other tissues or organs.
It may also reappear in adults when the bone marrow is overactive, as in disorders such as pernicious anemia, multiple myeloma, and invasive (metastatic) cancer affecting bone marrow.
If the child has cancer, massage is not advisable if the cancer is the kind that can spread to other organs (metastatic cancer) or if it involves tissue damage due to chemotherapy or other treatment.
Even when thyroid surgery is performed early, metastatic spread of the cancer may have already occurred.
Izzie's diagnosis was metastatic melanoma (stage IV) and despite treatment, it had spread to her liver, skin and brain.
The old idea of the circulating blood being supersaturated with lime salts which in some way had first become liberated from atrophying bones, and then deposited, to form calcified areas in different tissues will have to be given up, as there is no evidence that this " metastatic " calcification ever takes place.