Sentences with phrase «pancreatic tumors taken»
Pancreatic tumors taken from human patients also carried the enzyme - producing bacteria.
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Oliver McDonald, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of pathology, microbiology and immunology at Vanderbilt University and co-first author of the study, says: «In pancreatic cancer, the fact that it may take years for a primary tumor to develop, while metastases can progress very quickly, is somewhat of an enigma.
Analysis of the mice tumors showed that the MM41 compound had been taken up into the nucleus of the cancer cells showing that it was able to effectively target the pancreatic cancer tumor.
In this study, samples were taken from patients» tumors during surgery and transplanted into mice to grow new pancreatic cancer tumors.
The researchers looked exclusively at small segments of DNA called promoters in samples of tumors taken from 308 pancreatic cancer patients.