Sentences with phrase «aggressive tumors called»

In a major breakthrough for ovarian and uterine cancers, Yale researchers have defined the genetic landscape of rare, highly aggressive tumors called carcinosarcomas (CSs), pointing the way to possible new treatments.

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In 2009 he had been diagnosed with a type of rapidly growing brain tumor called a high - grade astrocytoma that, despite aggressive treatment, eventually evolved into a glioblastoma — the highly malignant brain tumor that also took the lives of Vice President Joe Biden's son, Beau, in 2015 and former Sen. Ted Kennedy in 2009.

The team was surprised to observe that these very aggressive tumors arise from mature, pigment - producing cells called melanocytes.

Several studies have supported a role for cancer stem cells in the aggressive brain tumors called glioblastoma, but those studies involved inducing human tumors to grow in mice, and as such their relevance to cancer in humans has been questioned.

Drugs that enhance a process called oxidative stress were found to kill rhabdomyosarcoma tumor cells growing in the laboratory and possibly bolstered the effectiveness of chemotherapy against this aggressive tumor of muscle and other soft tissue.

Importantly, elevated BRCA1 methylation was confined to patients diagnosed with so - called high - grade serous tumors, the most aggressive variant of ovarian cancer, which also is the variant associated with BRCA1 mutations.

Aggressive tumor growth is linked to high activity of a macromolecular assembly called RNA polymerase I.

One such example is a rare, aggressive childhood brain tumor called primitive neuroectodermal tumor of the central nervous system (CNS - PNET).

The CRISPR - Cas9 genome editing system could help fight cancer, and now, researchers have used the tool to target what they call cancer's command center, in a treatment that's been shown in mice to shrink aggressive tumors and increase survival rates, without harming healthy cells.

Researchers led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists have worked out how a crucial cancer - related protein, a «histone writer» called Ezh2, plays a role in suppressing as well as driving the most aggressive form of the brain tumor medulloblastoma.

Many women are «triple negative» No one yet knows precisely why, but African - American women are roughly twice as likely as white women to have triple - negative breast cancer — so called because tumor cells in this particularly aggressive form of the disease test negative for estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR), and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER - 2).

These tumors are called vaccine - associated sarcomas and are very aggressive, rapidly growing cancerous tumors.

When the problem is something as insidious and painful as the aggressive, malignant tumors that make up hemangiosarcoma, you can be left feeling helpless due to the limitations of so - called modern medicine.