adverb
- In a manner relating to or involving metastasis; by means of the spread of disease (especially cancer) from one part of the body to another.
Usage: medical/technical term; commonly used in oncology and pathology
Examples
- The cancer had spread metastatically to the patient's lungs and liver.
- Doctors determined that the tumor was growing metastatically rather than remaining localized.
- The disease progressed metastatically, making treatment more challenging.
- Metastatically advanced cancers require aggressive therapeutic intervention.
- The cells migrated metastatically throughout the body within months.