James Wolcott

There was a time when idealistic folksingers such as myself believed that Reality TV was a programming vogue that would peak and recede, leaving only its hardiest show-offs. Instead, it has metastasized like toxic mold, filling every nook and opening new crannies.

American Critic

Barry Jenkins

Growing up, I wasn't the most vocal kid in the world. I feel like I learned through observation, and usually, when you're watching things, you're not speaking. That sort of metastasized in a way that I began to participate less and less in the world.

American Director

Abraham Verghese

The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. It's like a cancer that's metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?

Ethiopian Author

Michelle Malkin

While Obama, the olive-branch poseur, has called for a restoration of 'civility' in Washington and liberal elites whine and whinny about the need for 'no labels,' class-warfare demagoguery has metastasized unchecked.

American Writer

Patrick Soon-Shiong

I was working with stem cells as part of a NASA programme. We realised that the science of stem-cell proliferation was also fundamental to cancer cells when cancer enters the phase of metastasis.

South African Businessman

Used primarily in medical discussions about serious diseases, often cancer.

Medical Context

A technical term; use it in academic or professional health contexts, not in casual conversation.

Technical Term

The term often implies a worsening health situation because it refers to disease spread.

Negative Connotation

 and why are some organs more likely to get infected than others? The process of cancer spreading across the body is known as metastasis. It begins when cancer cells from an initial tumor invade nearby normal tissue. As the cells proliferate, they spread via one of the three common routes of

How does cancer spread...

 So the fact that not only did cancer not seem to originate in skeletal muscles, but cancer didn't seem to go to skeletal muscle -- there seemed to be something here. So these articles were saying, you know, "Skeletal -- metastasis to skeletal muscle -- is very rare."

Eva Vertes: My dream...

 in protecting us from cancer. In fact, one of those drugs may well have spared President Jimmy Carter's life. Do you remember, President Carter had malignant melanoma that had metastasized to his brain, and that diagnosis is one that is usually accompanied by numbers

What the sugar coating...

 more painful subject pain is something that can make your life miserable and people are suffering from all kinds of pain like neuropathic pain lower back pain and cancer pain from bone metastasis well did you know the metastases get to your brain sometimes

Ultrasound surgery --...

 and so he was never allowed to be himself. He was never allowed to express tenderness or vulnerability, curiosity, doubt. He was never allowed to cry. And so he was forced to push all those feelings underground, and they eventually metastasized.

The profound power of an...

 And the answer, to me, is we're treating cancer too late in the game, when it's already established, and oftentimes, it's already spread or metastasized. And as a doctor, I know that once a disease progresses to an advanced stage,

Can we eat to starve...

 The support staff, the friends and family, people who lifted our spirits, and never let us give up on our ambitious endeavors. The best kind of sidekicks we could have asked for. It took a village to help me study metastasis.

How cancer cells...

 but it showed bilateral, visible, palpable breast masses, breast tumors, that had metastasized widely all over the body. And the real tragedy was, if you look through her records, she had been seen

Abraham Verghese: A...

 on top of the tumor, they will act as a cage. They will actually physically prevent the tumor from entering other organs, controlling the metastasis. The devices are also biodegradable.

Good news in the fight...

 Tumors may be benign, meaning that they remain in one area, or malignant, which means that they are capable of spreading. Through a process called metastasis

Metastasis