metastasize
metastasise BrE

I thought it had metastasized all over near the end.

What the close call did show is how far terrorism has metastasized on television.

Some forms of skin cancer may even metastasize to the child's body.

By the time of diagnosis, the cancer had metastasized and she was given about six months to live.

The disease may metastasize, or spread, to other parts of the body.

He died of cancer which had metastasized into his bones.

Or perhaps the two have joined forces and metastasized into something deeper.

But in fact it didn't have the ability to metastasize."

In book form, it has metastasized into something quite unmanageable.

Many tumors do not cause symptoms even when they have metastasized.

That's more than enough time for tumors to develop and metastasize.

Even patients whose cancer has metastasized can usually be cured.

However, not every cell in the tumor has the ability to metastasize.

The cancer from a kidney had metastasized to the lungs.

They got married, and six months later her husband died because the cancer had metastasized to his brain.

It reflects how photography especially has metastasized throughout the art of the last 30 years.

The cancer is about to metastasize and we hold the scalpel in our hand.

But isn't it weaker to let one's emotional problems metastasize rather than address them?

By May 1989, the cancer returned and had metastasized.

It turned out that the cancer was more advanced than previously thought and about to metastasize.

Surgery followed, but by 1992 the cancer had metastasized to his liver.

If not removed at an early stage, melanoma can metastasize.

"If you leave it, it's going to metastasize," he said.

Unfortunately, in September the doctors found that the cancer had metastasized, and during the last months she didn't work at all.

It was metastasized from breast cancer after her eight years' struggling against the disease.

It was first identified in hepatocellular carcinoma, and is also expressed in colorectal carcinomas that metastasise to the liver.

There are two ways in which it can treat the economic cancer that has taken hold in Greece, and which now threatens to metastasise across the Mediterranean.

Written in rather a hurry by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, this comic carbuncle would metastasise into the radically nasty and amusing Steptoe & Son (1962-1974).

In one review they noted, "Played live these songs will metastasise into expansive jams, and will sound great when they do, but here and now they're sharp, disciplined, and seriously compelling."

Hughes' claims that, in Hobart "the suspicion that the commandant was out of control, that the island's remoteness from Hobart had permitted some cancer of his soul to metastasise wildly, could not entirely be allayed".

The results of these latest trials indicate the continuing need for close cooperation between neurosurgeons, pathologists, and radiation oncologists in the management of cancers that metastasise to the brain, not only to provide biopsy material for histological diagnosis but also to carry out excisional surgery in appropriate cases.