1.   All the while, my father exuded a sense of joy against which even metastatic liver cancer was powerless.

2.   Dad knew that no one gets over metastatic liver cancer and the doctor said it was only a matter of time.

3.   Lung cells that had been damaged by decades of exposure to inhaled carcinogens could no longer recover and progressed into a full-blown metastatic cancer.

4.   Men with metastatic prostate cancer who have been surgically castrated are sometimes given the drug flutamide to block a hormone that can drive the cancer.

5.   Surgical castrations are rare in America, with the average urologist doing at most one a month, nearly all on patients with metastatic prostate cancer.

6.   The cause was metastatic cancer, medical school officials said.

7.   The cause was metastatic cancer, family members said.

8.   The cause was metastatic prostate cancer, his family said.