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metastasis
(redirected from metastatic tumor)

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Carcinomas are the most common metastatic tumors from (in order of frequency) the kidney (figure 1), lung, breast (figure 2), and stomach: melanoma is less common.
2005) inferred that tungsten somehow played a role in the Fallon leukemias while presenting data suggesting that implanted tungsten alloy caused metastatic tumor formation, readers may confuse the issues and assume that somehow the two effects (rhabdomyosarcoma and childhood leukemia) are related.
In the upcoming Proceedings, molecular biologist Drew Pardoll of the Johns Hopkins University Medical Institutions in Baltimore says that these two studies indicate that T cells revved up with interleukin-2 "are indeed capable of trafficking into even large metastatic tumor deposits and eliminating tumor cells.
 
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