Sentences with phrase «between cancerous»

The primary concern is in differentiating between cancerous and benign masses.

At InSitu Foundation, researchers are learning to train dogs to tell the difference between cancerous and benign tumors in a breast cancer study with Duke University.

For example, administering laser therapy to cancerous cells can actually stimulate tumor growth because the light can not distinguish between cancerous and healthy cells.

The current method for distinguishing between cancerous and benign tissue during surgery is to cut out and freeze small samples to be analyzed by pathologists.

A featured paper in the February issue of the research journal Cancer Gene Therapy demonstrates that cancer cells in the liver are excellent targets for gene therapy using adenoviral vectors, based upon a fundamental new understanding of the differences between cancerous and normal liver cells.

Distinguishing between cancerous and healthy tissue can be hard; it usually takes several days for pathologists to analyse a tissue sample.

The ability for doctors to skip the biopsy and use a multimodal imaging endoscope to diagnose cancer on the spot would save valuable time and could also allow surgeons to more easily differentiate between cancerous and healthy tissue during surgery.

After demonstrating and independently validating that a 5 - gene pancreatic cancer predictor discriminated between cancerous and healthy tissue, the researchers applied the predictor to datasets that also included benign lesions of the pancreas, including pancreatitis and early stage cancer.

It is important for such circuits to be able to discriminate accurately between cancerous and noncancerous cells, so they don't unleash their killing power in the wrong places, Weiss says.

Last year, a machine vision program developed by Stanford researchers was able to distinguish between cancerous and non-cancerous moles with more than 90 percent accuracy, beating out its human dermatologist counterparts — possibly a sign of what's to come in the field of AI.

Not exact matches

The company's first product objectively and accurately distinguishes between those precancerous oral lesions at high risk of becoming cancerous and those that pose low risk.

In total, 83 patients developed complications within 30 days postoperatively, and complication rates were similar between the noncancerous and cancerous groups.

How much tissue to remove is a balancing act between the Scylla of leaving remnants of cancerous or seizure - prone material and the Charybdis of removing regions that are critical for speech or other near - essential operations.

The relationships between the various cancerous cells from a single person can be plotted out in much the same way as evolutionary biologists plot relationships between species: by drawing phylogenetic trees, branching diagrams that trace «descendants» back to a common ancestor.

A software program was used to characterize the breast cancer tumors and detect boundaries between healthy and cancerous tissue.

«Helping physicians discriminate between lesions at high - and low - risk for cancerous transformation could mean fewer unnecessary procedures for low - risk patients and earlier interventions for those at high risk.»

When injected into the body, docetaxel doesn't discriminate between healthy and cancerous cells.

Previous efforts in the field have been held back by difficulties in distinguishing between normal and cancerous T - cells.

Diagnostic tests can quickly distinguish between malignant, or cancerous, tumours and those that are benign, or harmless.

Over the last 3 years, the partnership between the Salk Institute and Ipsen has delivered significant scientific advances in the cancer field such as the development of biological models mimicking human cancerous processes as well as identification of specific cells driving tumor growth.

The investigators found that the communication between two proteins in cellular post office is responsible for the detachment and movement of cancerous cells from lungs to other regions of the body.

For years, our gynos, based on guidelines from major health institutions like the American Cancer Society (ACS) and ACOG, asked us to perform step - by - step, quadrant - by - quadrant self - exams at home to help us find potentially cancerous lumps between screenings.

While it is true that metabolic «errors» typically build up inside the genetic machinery of «pre-cancerous» cells and play a primary role in the development of cancer, it is also true that dysfunction in our immune system, inflammatory system, hormonal system, detoxification system, and antioxidant system — and problematic interactions between these five systems — can significantly increase the risk of cells becoming cancerous.

At other times, they alter communications between cells in such a way that healthy cells are prevented from becoming cancerous.

Amy's own childhood, as the descendant of a famous doctor herself, was fraught with dysfunction that led her to suppress the distress of the first 18 years of her life that finally exploded as a cancerous tumor wedged between her heart and lung and an autoimmune disease that caused critical issues with her treatment.

«Reports of a sarcoma (a cancerous mass arising from bone, cartilage, fat or muscle) developing at the site of vaccine injection sites in some animals have led to the suspicion of a link between the vaccine and a disposition in some animals to this type of reaction,» reports PetMD.

He had a fibrosarcoma (a cancerous tumor) between his shoulder blades in the skin.

Referring to adverse reactions from vaccines, the Wall Street Journal article cited above (Attachment 2) reports: «In cats there has been a large increase in hyperthyroidism and cancerous tumors between the shoulder blades where vaccines typically are injected.»

In 1991, three years after Pennsylvania issued a mandatory rabies vaccination requirement for cats, Dr. Mattie Hendrick's lab at the University of Pennsylvania noted a connection between the surprising increase in the number of sarcomas, or cancerous tumors, and vaccination in cats.

Wobeser BK et al (Vet Pathol 2007) and Marino DJ et al (JAVMA 1995) have both reported, in retrospective studies consisting of over 500 amputated digit submissions to pathology laboratories, that 60 % were determined to be cancerous, whereas the remaining 40 % were benign, divided equally between benign tumors and inflammatory processes.

Nails that are too long, or torn; the skeleton being off kilter, so the paws are taking more pressure than they should have to; debris such as pine needles, sticky weeds, tiny bits of gravel between the toes, ticks buried between the toes, salt from winter roads, hot pavement, lawn chemicals that cause a burning feeling; growths / tumors, and even cancerous lesions.

A lab at the University of Pennsylvania noted a connection between a troubling increase in sarcomas (a type of cancerous tumor) and vaccinations in cats.

The polyps weren't cancerous, but for a man in his mid-40s, as this associate was, getting at them early meant the difference between a routine procedure and a major operation.