oligometastases

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A form of oligometastasis — A state of limited metastasis, especially of cancer, with several (but not many) metastatic sites.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of oligometastasis

    Secondly, most (64/87, 82%) of the patients received conventional radiation therapy, while with the development of stereotactic body radiotherapy, the treatment to the multimetastatic lesions, especial to the pulmonary oligometastases, might achieve better results [18 ].

    2016 January 13, “Multimodality Treatment May Improve the Survival Rate of Patients with Metastatic Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma with Good Performance Status”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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