metastatic

/,metəs'tætik/

Thân thiện

A doctor points to a scan showing metastatic growth in a patient's lungs.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Relating to or affected by metastasis: Describes the characteristic of, or a condition involving, the spread of a disease, especially cancer, from one part of the body to another unrelated part.
   • Resulting from metastasis: Indicates that a growth, tumor, or lesion originated from a primary cancer site elsewhere in the body.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • The biopsy confirmed the tumor was metastatic.
  • Patients with metastatic disease often require systemic treatments like chemotherapy.
  • The scan revealed metastatic lesions in the liver.

Advanced Usage

• "Metastatic spread": The process or pattern by which cancer cells disseminate.
  • The primary concern is controlling the metastatic spread to the bones.
• "Metastatic cascade": The complex series of steps a cancer cell undergoes to spread.
  • Researchers are studying ways to interrupt the metastatic cascade.

Variants and Related Words

• Metastasis (n): The process or the instance of disease spreading.
  • The patient's prognosis changed after the diagnosis of metastasis to the brain.
• Metastasize (v): (Of a cancer) to spread by metastasis.
  • The cancer began to metastasize several months after the initial diagnosis.

Synonyms

• Disseminated: (In medical context) Spread from a primary site.
• Secondary: (Referring to a tumor) Resulting from spread from a primary site.

Related Phrases

• Metastatic burden: The total amount or extent of metastatic disease in the body.
  • The new therapy aims to reduce the metastatic burden.
• Metastatic workup: The series of tests and scans performed to determine if and where cancer has spread.
  • The oncologist ordered a full metastatic workup.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. relating to or affected by metastasis
   • metastatic growth