Quotes About Metastasis

Breast cancer is thought to use cholesterol to help the cancer migrate and invade more tissue.

Venedig war ein Krebsgeschwür, das gezielt seine eigenen Metastasen plante.

Cancer is not just a dividing cell. It's a complex disease: It invades, it metastasizes, it evades the immune system.

I was working with stem cells as part of a NASA programme. We realised that the science of stem-cell proliferation was also fundamental to cancer cells when cancer enters the phase of metastasis.

The purpose of radiation treatment is to disable the prostate, to stop cancer there from continuing to grow. Because the prostate is the source of PSA, if PSA continues to be made and its level begins to rise, there are two possibilities. Either the cancer has reactivated locally, within the prostate or surrounding tissue, or a distant metastasis—a tiny bit of cancer that probably escaped the prostate before treatment began—has started causing trouble.