multimetastasis

English

Etymology

multi- +‎ metastasis

Noun

multimetastasis (uncountable)

  1. (pathology) The spread of multiple metastases, especially of cancer
    • 2016 January 13, “Multimodality Treatment May Improve the Survival Rate of Patients with Metastatic Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma with Good Performance Status”, in PLOS ONE‎, →DOI:
      This showed that regardless of whether patients had oligometastasis or multimetastasis, the best supportive care group fared significantly worse compared to either of the other two treatment groups, and the chemotherapy alone group fared significantly worse than the multimodality treatment group (Figs 3 and 4 ).
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