Sentences with phrase «as neoplasm»

This a rare condition in which the adrenal gland suffers from abnormal cell growth such as tumor or what is referred to as a neoplasm.

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«Prudential's methodical actuary,» as I wrote in Truth, «had gone through his company's own life insurance payouts for the previous year and had discovered that two words kept recurring in the ledgers: malignant neoplasm.»

These experts decided to rename EFVPTC as «noninvasive follicular thyroid neoplasm with papillary - like nuclear features» or NIFTP.

Next on 23andMe's agenda: applying the same approach to rare cancers, such as sarcoma and a group of blood cancers called myeloproliferative neoplasms, that are difficult to study but that might be ideally suited to this kind of analysis.

Using a fluorescent protein to detect Rgs16 expression, the investigators found that this gene is induced by pancreatic tumor formation starting from its earliest manifestation as ductal neoplasm all the way to advanced solid tumor in a spatially and temporally coincidental manner.

The incidence rate for neoplasms was highest among children either after IVF (1.5 / 1000) and somewhat lower for OI births (1.0 / 1000) as compared to that of naturally conceived children -LRB-.59 / 1000).

The lesions evaluated in this study that can become cancerous are known as intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms.

Myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN) are diagnosed in around 3,300 UK patients every year and cause an overproduction of blood cells creating a significant impact on quality - of - life, with symptoms such as night sweats, itching and tiredness.

Each neoplasm was part of a tissue microarray constructed as described elsewhere (22).

In 2005, the identification of an activating mutation in JAK2 (the V617F mutation) as a STAT5 - activating and disease - causing genetic alteration in a significant proportion of patients with myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs) has emphasized the oncogenic role of the JAK tyrosine kinases in hematologic malignancies.2 — 5 JAK2 is a member of the Janus tyrosine kinase family comprising three other mammalian non-receptor tyrosine kinases (JAK1, JAK3 and TYK2) that associate with cytokine receptors lacking intrinsic kinase activity to mediate cytokine - induced signal transduction and activation of STAT transcription factors.6 All JAKs share a similar protein structure and contain a tyrosine kinase domain at the C - terminus flanked by a catalytically inactive pseudokinase domain with kinase - regulatory activity, by an atypical SH2 domain and by a FERM domain that mediates association to the membrane - proximal region of the cytokine receptors.7, 8 Soon after the discovery of JAK2 V617F, we and others described that activating JAK1 mutations are relatively common in adult patients with T - cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and participate in ALL development allowing for constitutive activation of STAT5.9 — 11 Several STAT5 - activating JAK1 mutations were also reported in AML and breast cancer patients.10

FDA Clears Test to Help Diagnose, Identify Blood Cancer Type: The FDA has approved ClearLLab Reagents (T1, T2, B1, B2, M) for the detection of hematologic malignancies such as acute and chronic leukemias, myelodysplastic syndromes, myeloproliferative neoplasms, multiple myeloma, and non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

The main diseases that cause an increased excretion of fecal calprotectin are Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis and neoplasms such as bowel cancer.

There is also controversy as to what criteria should be used to establish whether a lesion that arises in the skin or soft tissues is or is not a neoplasm, and if so, whether it is benign or malignant.»

A neoplasm is a tumor that grows as opposed to one that swells; a benign neoplasm is non-cancerous, and a malignant neoplasm is cancer.

These neoplasms usually appear as small, red, raised, sparsely haired nodules that often have an ulcerated surface.

Infections, Calculi (forms into cat bladder stones) and Neoplasms (abnormal cell growth such as cancer) in the bladder are the main cat bladder problems.

Charges for Treatment (s) of the following Illness (es) or Surgery (ies), which Manifest (ed) themselves or are recommended, or symptoms occur during the first one hundred and eighty (180) days of Coverage hereunder beginning on the initial Effective Date: any condition of the breast; any Treatment of all forms of cancer / neoplasm; any condition of the prostate; disorders of the reproductive system; hysterectomy; gall stones or urologic stones (kidney, ureteral, bladder or urethral stones) and any associated complications; any acne diagnosis or acne related condition; asthma; allergies; tonsillectomy; back conditions; adenoidectomy; hemorrhoids; hemorrhoidectomy; hernia, or any Surgery (ies) that is (are) not Emergency in nature, as Emergency is defined hereunder.