{"term":{"id":"15879","title":"metastasis","longtitle":"IUPAC Gold Book - metastasis","doi":"10.1351\/goldbook.15879","code":"15879","status":"current","definitions":[{"id":1,"text":"Movement of bacteria or body cells, especially cancer cells, from one part of the body to another, resulting in change in location of a disease or of its symptoms from one part of the body to another.\nGrowth of pathogenic microorganisms or of abnormal cells distant from the site of their origin in the body.","sources":["PAC, 2007, 79, 1153. 'Glossary of terms used in toxicology, 2nd edition (IUPAC Recommendations 2007)' on page 1260 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1351\/pac200779071153)"]}],"altoutputs":{"html":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/15879\/html","xml":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/15879\/xml","plain":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/15879\/plain"},"citation":"Citation: 'metastasis' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351\/goldbook.15879","license":"The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/) for individual terms.","collection":"If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org .","disclaimer":"The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using.","accessed":"2026-05-06T21:01:28+00:00"}}