71.   Last spring, doctors canceled a liver transplant after exploratory surgery showed the cancer had spread to the abdomen.

72.   Luck was not having the cancer spread.

73.   Melanoma can be a serious problem if the cancer has spread throughout the body.

74.   Ms. Scherer, a middle school teacher from Albert Lea, Minn., learned two years ago that breast cancer had spread to her brain.

75.   Now there were worries that the cancer would spread.

76.   Now, he must wait until after surgery to find out whether the cancer has spread.

77.   Now it appears that PET can detect the presence of metabolically active tumors and may be able to indicate whether and how far the cancer has spread.

78.   Older women, or those whose cancer has spread, may have different gene patterns.

79.   On returning to Argentina in November, he performed extensive surgery because the cancer had spread to adjacent pelvic organs, and he stayed until Eva was stable.

80.   On the positive side, PET scans can help doctors plan the amount of chemotherapy to give a patient, based on the rate the cancer has spread.