Sentences with phrase «aggressive tumor sample»

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The team chose to compare breast tissue from healthy individuals with tumor samples taken from breast cancer patients — including both primary tumors that had not spread from the breast to other body sites, and highly aggressive, metastatic tumors.

Answering important clinical questions — such as whether genetic diversity is a risk factor for aggressive tumor development or how it relates to treatment resistance — requires analyzing samples from many patients with different types of cancer.

Since completing the initial paper published Thursday, the team has analyzed 50 more samples from eye fluid of retinoblastoma patients, including those with less aggressive tumors whose eyes were saved, to get a start on determining what factors might be at play in tumor progression.