Sentences with phrase «tumour cells need»

Tumour cells need an increased supply of amino acids to support protein and nucleotide synthesis.

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To get into the blood vessels, the cell needs to penetrate tissue, both when it leaves the tumour and when it is attaching to a new organ.

«Although relatively rare, childhood germ cell tumours need to be diagnosed accurately and followed up carefully to give us the best chances of treating them,» says Professor Nick Coleman from the Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge.

The time needed for breast cancer metastases (secondary lesions caused by cells that have escaped from the original tumour) to develop varies between patients, and little is known about the mechanisms that govern latency (the dormant state of cells that have already spread through the body).

A trained robotic surgeon experienced in the treatment of prostate, bladder and kidney cancer, Assoc Prof Chia said, «For anticancer drugs to achieve their best effectiveness, they need to penetrate into the tumour efficiently in order to reach the cystoplasm of all the cancer cells that are being targeted without affecting the normal cells.

Many tumours lack the specific characteristics needed in order for the immunotherapy to recognise and attack the cancer cells as enemies.

The commentary highlights the possible fundamentally different and even opposing functions of intestinal fibroblast subpopulations in regulating inflammation and tumour formation and underscores the need to further characterize these cells to reveal new mechanisms underlying pathogenesis of chronic inflammation and cancer.

The enzyme that degrades these chains is called heparanase, and the researchers found that medulloblastoma cells, as well as cells from other childhood brain tumours, need this enzyme, which may suggest new ways to treat the tumor.