Example Sentences

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As prostate cancer progresses, it becomes increasingly aggressive and can metastasise.

From Science Daily • Jun. 5, 2024

Many of the women supported by the charity - the only one of its kind in the UK - found those first symptoms were missed, which then allowed the cancer time to metastasise.

From BBC • Dec. 11, 2023

About 10 years ago I read in Scientific American about the discovery that they enable tumour cells to metastasise.

From The Guardian • Apr. 7, 2018

One might view the film as a disease metaphor, in which tumours metastasise and infest the whole body.

From The Guardian • Sep. 7, 2017

Johnny gets angry texts from a spurned lover – but these nasty signs never metastasise dramatically into a situation that confronts or challenges Johnny.

From The Guardian • Dec. 9, 2010