Sentences with phrase «as a tumor then»

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«Vision» as in «I'm going to cut this guy open, cut out that tumor then sew him back up again so that he can live!»

After John's diagnosis, when Isabella was in third grade, the family relocated from North Carolina to Michigan, then later, on to New York and Minnesota as John underwent surgeries to remove tumors, implant pain pumps and reconstruct parts of his skull.

As soon as the tumor was discovered I went to my family physician's office, who then referred me out to a cardiologisAs soon as the tumor was discovered I went to my family physician's office, who then referred me out to a cardiologisas the tumor was discovered I went to my family physician's office, who then referred me out to a cardiologist.

Inspired by his own bout of leukemia to try to find a better cancer treatment, retired broadcasting station owner Kanzius guessed that as an alternative to chemotherapy, he could inject tumors with metal ions, then use radio waves to heat the metal and destroy cancerous cells.

«If we could load these virus shells with a different cargo, say a drug, and target it to a particular place in the body, such as a tumor, it could then deliver the drug to just that specific location, making the drug more effective, or reducing side effects,» Lawrence said.

Then again, the Web is also making us sicker, or at least making us feel that way: A 2008 study by Microsoft Research showed that Internet searchers tend to focus on only the top few results, typically highlighting rarer, more serious diagnoses of common ailments such as headache (brain tumor!)

Dendritic cells are too large to pass through the blood - brain barrier, which is one reason they have to be cultured with brain tumor cells outside the body, then injected back into the patient's skin as a vaccine.

The central idea is to encode an antigen as RNA and inject that into the skin of the patient, whose own cells then produce the protein that triggers an immune response, either to kill tumor cells or to prevent an infection.

«You can look at it in terms of tumor biology — our current strategy is to treat and then as long as the tumor responds to any degree, to watch for progression without paying much attention to depth of response.

As proof - of - principle of the potential efficacy, Zhang's team grew human ovarian tumors in immunocompromised mice, then injected short - interfering RNAs to block the tumors» growth using RNA interference against FAL1.

«We do a phenomenal job with surgery, peeling off as much of the tumor as we can see, and then we do standard chemotherapy, but the cancers still recur,» Memarzadeh said.

As a result, the immune system, he says, «can identify antigenic differences between the foreign (tumor) and normal, and then go out and eliminate all cells displaying the foreign (tumor) antigens.»

The standard treatment for glioblastomas consists of removing as much of the tumor as possible with surgery and then eliminating what is left through radiotherapy combined with chemotherapy.

That light is absorbed by the chlorine - based molecules, which then excite nearby oxygen molecules, creating a highly reactive form of oxygen, known as singlet oxygen, that rips apart nearby biomolecules and kills the tumor cell.

To create a picture of the entire genomic landscape of the tumor from circulating tumor DNA, scientists «read» each tiny fragment and then piece them together as a puzzle.

The researchers then turned to a JAK2 - specific inhibitor now known as BSK805 which markedly reduced TNBC tumor growth in mice when paired with chemotherapy.

Four weeks following SABR, radiation oncologists, surgical oncologists and medical oncologists made a multidisciplinary decision as to whether each patient's tumor could then be surgically removed.

So, for example, if one type of immunotherapy is used to knock out an inhibitory signal produced by a cancer, and the tumor responds by upregulating a second signal, an additional therapy could then be used to target this one as well, Lu says.

Then the doctors glued four sets of insulated electrodes on the scalp so as to focus the field on the tumor.

They envision using this technique to create mice with tumors carrying the same genetic profile as a patient, then testing different drugs on them to see which have the best effect.

Although there is new data coming from Dr. Michel Sadelain's lab and others where they have made a molecule that may work as a CAR T cell that would then bind to NY - ESO - 1 peptides displayed on the surface of a tumor cell.

The symposium features presentations by Philippa Marrack and John Kappler talking on the T cell repertoire; William Paul on interleukin 4 as a prototypic immunoregulatory cytokine; Timothy Springer on lymphocyte trafficking; Pamela Bjorkman on structural studies of MHC and MHC - related proteins, and Jack Strominger on peptide presentation by class I and II MHC proteins; Thierry Boon on genes coding for tumor rejection antigens, including the first tumor antigen, MAGE - 1; and Philip Greenberg on the modification of T cells for adoptive therapy by retroviral - mediated gene insertion Since then, the symposia series has attracted leading immunologists in the cancer vaccine and antibody fields, providing them with a comprehensive view of the promises and challenges in the development of cancer immunotherapies.

Then, with the use of special equipment, the tumor cells will fluoresce or appear as bright blue tissue in the bladder.

(F) Kaplan - Meier tumor - free survival curves comparing WAP - tva mice injected with RCAS - caErbB2 and then either kept as virgin or impregnated.

He was introduced to radiopharmaceutical development as a postdoctoral research associate and then as a staff scientist in the department of radiology at Washington University School of Medicine, where he developed several preclinical imaging agents to study brain tumors, atherosclerosis and Alzheimer's disease.

I won't go into too much detail here, but I've had quite the health journey, having been diagnosed with Hashimoto's thyroiditis and then thyroid cancer in the recent past (my cancer is now considered «cured,» as I had my thyroid and the cancerous tumor removed).

Even the research from India that jump - started Campbell's interest in the diet - cancer link showed that rats on a low - casein diet were dying with disturbing frequency, while the high - protein rats — tumored as they may have been — were at least staying alive.13 (It's surprising, then, that The China Study promotes a plant - based diet to prevent cancer, when death is equally effective and requires fewer shopping trips.)

As a resident and then as a staff naturopathic provider at CTCA, he collaborated closely with surgeons, medical oncologists, radiation oncologists and other practitioners to optimize patients» care for a wide range of cancers, including rare tumorAs a resident and then as a staff naturopathic provider at CTCA, he collaborated closely with surgeons, medical oncologists, radiation oncologists and other practitioners to optimize patients» care for a wide range of cancers, including rare tumoras a staff naturopathic provider at CTCA, he collaborated closely with surgeons, medical oncologists, radiation oncologists and other practitioners to optimize patients» care for a wide range of cancers, including rare tumors.

If true, then the use of this medicinal mushroom as an adjunct or preventative therapy may help many patients better fight the battle when challenged with tumor - forming cancers.»

If you've seen the 1990 box office comedy Kindergarten Cop, then you likely recall Arnold Schwartzenegger as a teacher snapping at a precocious 5 - year - old boy who suggests that his headache might be a tumor.

If a parent has bone or joint disease, allergic skin disease, bad teeth and gums, ear infections, eye problems, separation anxiety, destructive behavior, tender feet (cutting toe nails), oily musty skin odor, coprophagy, liver, heart or kidney disease, bladder stones, asthma, fatty tumors, poor physique or coordination, umbilical and other hernias or another disease, then the puppy is at least ten times as likely to inherit these problems than a puppy from healthier parents.

After irradiating the tumor, veterinarians collect a particular type of the dog's white blood cells, known as Natural Killer (NK) cells, then stimulate and grow the cells in a laboratory before injecting them back into the dog's tumor.

Malignant tumors can develop in one location, such as a hormone - producing gland, and then spread to other body parts.

If there was involvement of the muscular layer, then perhaps amputation does make sense, as long as there is no evidence that this tumor has already spread to other organs.

Re-directed Autologous T cell Therapy for drug resistant or refractory CD20 + B cell lymphoma Overview: In this approach, immune cells (known as T cells) are taken from the peripheral blood, genetically modified in the laboratory to express a receptor that recognizes B cells, and then expanded to produce large numbers of tumor specific T cells outside -LSB-...]

Then she went on to be spayed and have mammary tumors removed, which are very common in dogs that have been used as breeders.

Cells from the biopsy tissue are then examined under the microscope and the tumor is assessed as high grade (aggressive), intermediate, or low - grade (slow - growing).

Often plastic surgeons perform surgeries that can be considered miraculous, such as removing a large tumor from a person's face and then reconstructing that face to look attractive once more, or rebuilding the nose, mouth and jaw a woman who was the victim of a shotgun blast.

For example if a chest x-ray was read as normal, but in fact showed that a patient had a tumor which led to cancer and the death of that patient then their estate may be able to pursue an Illinois med mal case.