Sentences with phrase «affect tumor therapy»

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I'm interested in doing a film on proton therapy, for example, because I have a tumor in my brain; it's the tumor that affected my eyesight as a child.

«If our findings are confirmed by additional studies, they may open doors to the development of targeted therapies against the tumor subtypes more likely to affect African Americans and potentially help reduce racial disparities in breast cancer.»

The safe use of a stem - cell - based therapy against brain metastasis would require preventing the engineered cells from persisting within the brain, where they could affect normal tissue and possibly give rise to new tumors.

She is also interested in examining the changes in the tumor microenvironment and how they affect melanoma progression and therapy resistance.

These are known as «local therapies» because they target the tumor without affecting the rest of the body.

Radiation therapy can help extend the lives of affected dogs, but also is ineffective against tumor cells that have metastasized.

Both blood and tumor samples are requested from affected dogs who have NOT received chemo or radiation therapy.

When tumors are too large for treatment or they have spread to distant sites, therapy is aimed at improving the quality of life of affected pets as much as possible.

Surgical treatment to remove the tumors is the optimal therapy and the largest reported series of cases to date demonstrated a mean survival time after surgery of around 500 days, which is relatively long given that affected ferrets are usually middle - aged at the time of diagnosis.