Paul Kalanithi

The diagnosis was immediate: Masses matting the lungs and deforming the spine. Cancer. In my neurosurgical training, I had reviewed hundreds of scans for fellow doctors to see if surgery offered any hope. I'd scribble in the chart 'Widely metastatic disease - no role for surgery,' and move on. But this scan was different: It was my own.

American Writer

Dave deBronkart

Diagnosed incidentally with stage IV, grade 4 metastatic renal cell carcinoma, I had bone metastases in my femur (which eventually fractured), ulna, and cranium; five metastases in my lungs; and muscle metastases in my thigh and tongue. Yet six months after diagnosis, my treatment ended: I've not had a drop of anything since.

Michael Greger

Broccoli is incredible. It can prevent DNA damage and metastatic cancer spread; activate defences against pathogens and pollutants; help to prevent lymphoma; boost the enzymes that detox your liver; target breast cancer stem cells; and reduce the risk of prostate cancer progression.

American Author

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Some cancers are curable, while others are highly incurable. The spectrum is enormous. Metastatic pancreatic cancer is a highly incurable disease, whereas some leukemia forms are very curable. There is a big difference between one form and another.

Indian Scientist

Meghan O'Rourke

My mother died of metastatic colorectal cancer shortly before three P.M. on Christmas Day of 2008. I don't know the exact time of her death, because none of us thought to look at a clock for a while after she stopped breathing.

American Poet

DeAngelo Williams

There are a lot of people who don't know what metastatic breast cancer is.

American Athlete

Used in medical discussions to describe cancer spread, not other diseases' transmission.

Medical Context

The term carries a serious connotation, often linked to advanced-stage illnesses.

Serious Tone

Don't confuse 'metastatic' with 'metabolic', which refers to the body's chemical processes.

Avoid Confusion

 about treating cancer. There are many different kinds of cancer. Each one originates in a particular part of the body, and then some kinds of cancer will spread or metastasize to particular other tissues where they must be getting resources that they need. So if you think from the perspective of early metastatic cancer cells

Deborah Gordon: What...

 He took women with metastatic breast cancer, randomly divided them into two groups. One group met for an hour and a half once a week in a support group. It was a nurturing, loving environment, where they were encouraged to let down their emotional defenses and talk about how awful it is to have breast cancer

Dean Ornish: Healing...

 Eventually, tens, if not hundreds of individual engineered tissues with integrated sensors may be implantable with a single application. Now, this approach to diagnosis is unconventional, to be sure, but it is robust. So far, my colleagues and I have used it to diagnose models of metastatic cancer,

Aaron Morris: How your...

 allowing the malignant cells to undergo hematogenous spread. Once at a new site, the cells once again undergo proliferation, and form small tumors known as micrometastases. These small tumors then grow into full-fledged tumors, and complete the metastatic process.

How does cancer spread...

 that's labeled with fluorescent molecules. That you can, not only see the margins right there on a molecular level, but you can see it even if it's not right on the top -- even if it's beyond your field of view. And this works for metastatic lymph nodes also.

Quyen Nguyen:...

 that they are capable of spreading. Through a process called metastasis a malignant tumor's cells will eventually break off, travel throughout the body, and begin forming tumors in other regions. When this happens the cancer has become metastatic

Cancer 101 PIPE National...

 but the doses in those dishes are nowhere near the doses that happen in the body. If I give a woman with breast cancer a drug called Taxol every three weeks, which is the standard, about 40 percent of women with metastatic cancer

David Agus: A new...

 so, metastatic cancer that started in her cervix, spread throughout her body. She's in her 50s and she is living. This is not about end of life, this is about life. This is not just about the elderly, this is about people.

What we can do to die...

 and her mom's metastatic cancer diagnosis. And recently, she started also doing some really interesting research about our work. Candace We've seen that students who participate in our storytelling opportunity

The mental health...

 currently I'm living with stage 4 metastatic cancer that is in my liver and in my lymph nodes