English to Arabic Medical Medical: Health Care

The word ‘oligometastases’ was coined in 19951 by Hellman and Weichselbaum who proposed ‘the existence of a clinical significant state of oligometastases’. It seemed to them to be a useable term by which to identify a subset of patients who have disseminated cancer, but in whom metastases were few in number. The diagnostic term ***oligometastatic ***disease is now being used with increasing frequency in the argot of multidisciplinary team meetings.

Why do some patients apparently pass through a so-called ***oligometastatic state while others run an explosive ‘polymetastatic’ course? As far as can be determined from the evidence they are at different points in a spectrum of biological aggressiveness.