Indeed, the new test stops working only when the cancer reaches a terminal stage.

He looked like the terminal stages of some wasting disease.

When her cancer was discovered, it had already reached the terminal stage.

Henry was late; the discussion had already reached its terminal stage.

He continued to see patients there until the terminal stages of his illness.

And there are animals that go through a terminal stage of life, where they don't eat.

In both cases, cancer had reached terminal stage already, and both died soon after.

The war between land and sea had just entered a terminal stage.

There were over three hundred patients here, all in terminal stages of the plague.

It can take seven or eight years to progress from the initial symptoms to the terminal stage.