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• v  spread throughout the body
  the cancer had metastasized and the patient could not be saved

• But if the current political instabilities are allowed to metastasize, Asian nations could tire of the notion of democracy altogether because it's considered too messy, ineffectual .
• Unlike other cancers, basal-cell carcinomas rarely metastasize, or migrate to form tumors in other parts of the body.
• In Washington, scandals metastasize, growing and changing until we can't remember what they were about in the beginning.

• metastasise

News & Articles

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• Inhibiting macrophage MerTK signaling creates an innate immune response against cancer
  New evidence shows that MerTK macrophage action in the microenvironment that surrounds cancer cells blunts the immune response, allowing the tumor cell to grow and metastasize.
  July 8, 2013 - Science Daily