Sentences with phrase «spread throughout the body within»

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More than one million people die from AIDS each year — an enormous number, but one that has decreased steadily throughout the past decade thanks in large part to anti-retroviral medicines that can slow its spread within the body.

Nevertheless, the survival rate for lung cancer is dismal: 80 percent of patients die within five years of diagnosis largely due to the disease's aggressive tendency to spread throughout the body.

Rheumatoid arthritis typically appears in a single joint at first, but it often spreads throughout much of the body within a few years.

Within two days following infection, the virus spreads to lymph nodes and tonsils, and then throughout the body to bone marrow, spleen, and other lymph nodes.