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#1 2016-02-06 19:33:32

David Bird
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From: The Hammer, Ontario
Registered: 2009-07-28
Posts: 1702

"Mastersize" and "metasize" for metastasize

Pat has pointed out that medical terms are unfamiliar to the unprepared, and prone to be reformulated to make some kind of sense. And who is prepared for the big C. Metastasis was originally any kind of change (“change of state”), but was adopted early on in medicine to describe the still mysterious ability of cancerous cells to migrate to other organs. Master sizing is just frightening.

Radiation or Chemo treatment and positive results for 4th stage mastersized rectal cancer to lungs? Had 3rd stage rectal cancer that masterized to 4th stage cancer to lungs.
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/inde … 507AAkwHN1

This thing came from no where and was already mastersized to his liver an lung when they found it.
http://www.cancercompass.com/message-bo … 5349,0.htm

It had mastersized to lymph nodes in neck, but no further thank GOD.
https://www.inspire.com/groups/cancer/d … jamaica-1/

How can she have stomach cancer that is mastersized to her liver and she doesn’t know what she has?
http://community.drphil.com/boards/?Ent … 17&Page=24

Metasizing is apt, but could easily be just a dropped syllable typo.

the banking crisis became a depression. Now the depression is on, the Euro has trapped europe in a depression, and the cancer is metasizing into the non-Euro economies
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/willard … 21219.html

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