Sentences with phrase «forming secondary tumours»

Metastasis is the process by which cancer cells spread from one organ to another, forming secondary tumours.

Batimastat does not work this way: instead, it is designed to keep cancers in check by preventing malignant cells breaking away and forming secondary tumours elsewhere in the body.

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Such secondary tumours are formed when individual cells break away from the main tumour and travel through the bloodstream to distant areas of the body.

Once these secondary tumours form, it is often too late to save a patient.