# OnCo record metastasis (term). Data CC BY-NC 4.0, attribute "Data from OnCo (onco.cc)". Whole corpus: https://onco.cc/api/v1/onco.nt
@prefix schema: <https://schema.org/> .
@prefix onco: <https://onco.cc/ns#> .
@prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

<https://onco.cc/terms/metastasis/>
  a schema:DefinedTerm ;
  onco:kind "term" ;
  schema:identifier "metastasis" ;
  schema:name "Metastasis"@en ;
  schema:alternateName "metastases"@en, "metastatic"@en, "metastasise"@en, "metastasize"@en, "metastasised"@en, "metastasized"@en, "metastasising"@en, "metastasizing"@en, "distant spread"@en, "spread to"@en, "secondary cancer"@en, "secondary cancers"@en, "stage IV"@en, "stage 4"@en, "advanced cancer"@en, "advanced disease"@en, "metastatic disease"@en, "advanced cancers"@en ;
  schema:description "Cancer that has spread from where it started to distant parts of the body, travelling through the blood or lymph. Metastasis is why staging scans look at the whole body, and the setting in which most new cancer drugs are approved first."@en ;
  schema:url <https://onco.cc/terms/metastasis/> ;
  schema:dateModified "2026-09-09"^^xsd:date ;
  schema:sameAs <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metastasis> ;
  owl:sameAs <http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q181876> ;
  schema:citation <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metastasis> ;
  onco:related <https://onco.cc/terms/primary-tumour/>, <https://onco.cc/pathways/metastatic-cascade/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/activating-invasion-metastasis/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/cancer-stage/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/oligometastatic/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/systemic-vs-local-therapy/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/lymph-node/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/disseminated-tumor-cells/>, <https://onco.cc/pathways/tumor-dormancy/>, <https://onco.cc/pathways/theories-of-cancer/>, <https://onco.cc/terms/seed-and-soil-hypothesis/> ;
  onco:keyPapers <https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-quail-joyce-microenvironment-metastasis-natmed-2013/> ;
  onco:journals <https://onco.cc/journals/cancer-metastasis-reviews/>, <https://onco.cc/journals/clinical-and-experimental-metastasis/> .