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METASTATIC
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Relating to or affected by metastasis
Example:
metastatic growth
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
metastasis (the spreading of a disease (especially cancer) to another part of the body)
Derivation:
metastasis (the spreading of a disease (especially cancer) to another part of the body)
Context examples:
Bone is one of the most frequent sites of metastatic carcinoma.
(Metastatic Carcinoma to the Bone, NCI Thesaurus)
This allele, which encodes MIR222 RNA, plays a role in development of cancers of the lung, thyroid, breast, prostate, glioblastoma and malignant (metastatic) melanoma.
(MIR222 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
A carcinoma that arises from the pancreas showing a mixture of ductal and neuroendocrine malignant cells in both the primary tumor and in the metastatic sites.
(Mixed Ductal-Neuroendocrine Carcinoma of the Pancreas, NCI Thesaurus)
A regimen consisting of mitoxantrone and prednisone used to treat metastatic hormone-refractory prostate cancer.
(MP Regimen, NCI Thesaurus)
The expression of the gene may be a marker for metastatic breast cancer because it is expressed at elevated levels in breast carcinomas displaying lymph node metastases.
(MUCL1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
Acts as an oncogene in breast, lung, thyroid and prostate carcinomas as well as metastatic melanoma and glioblastoma multiforme.
(MIR222 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)
Representative examples of metastatic cancers to the stomach include breast, lung, and esophageal metastatic carcinomas and melanomas.
(Metastatic Malignant Neoplasm to the Stomach, NCI Thesaurus)
Representative examples include metastatic carcinomas from the colon, breast, and lung.
(Metastatic Carcinoma to the Liver, NCI Thesaurus)
The majority of cases are metastatic carcinomas, and less frequently lymphomas.
(Metastatic Malignant Neoplasm to the Adrenal Gland, NCI Thesaurus)
The majority of metastatic neoplasms to the bone are carcinomas.
(Metastatic Malignant Neoplasm to the Bone, NCI Thesaurus)
