How Cancer Spreads: Four Emerging Insights About Metastasis

“Metastasis used to be an automatic death sentence, but that is no longer the case,” he says. “In some cases, it is now curable with immunotherapy, and for many cancers it is becoming more controllable. We are probably never going to eliminate it — but we are moving closer and closer to being able to prevent it in some cases, and to manage it the same way we manage other chronic diseases.”