Sentences with phrase «process called metastasis»

Cancer cells travel around the body and begin to attack healthy tissue in a process called metastasis.

The work, funded by national charity Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund, uncovers new evidence that PAK4 plays a key role in enabling cancer cells to grow and to spread from the pancreas into other areas of the body, a process called metastasis.

Cancer cells kill most often by crawling away from their original tumors to later re-root in vital parts of the body in a process called metastasis.

The marauding cells — sometimes just one among a billion blood cells — can lodge anywhere in the body, spreading cancer in a process called metastasis.

This allows cancer cells to break off from tumors, spread throughout the body (in blood or other fluid) and form new tumors at distant sites — a process called metastasis.

These cancer cells can grow and invade healthy tissue nearby and throughout the body, in a process called metastasis.

If left untreated, this growth can spread beyond the lung in a process called metastasis into nearby tissue or other parts of the body.

Chemodectomas have historically been thought of as being relatively benign (i.e., not very aggressive cancers that typically grow slowly and do not spread), but some of these cancers will spread to other parts of the body (e.g., lungs and lymph nodes) through a process called metastasis.

It is these same lymph vessels that carry tumor cells from breast tumors to the lungs or to other organs in a process called metastasis.