Sentences with phrase «cancerous tumor forms»

Leiomyosarcoma is when cancerous tumors form in the stomach or intestinal tract.

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These antioxidants are partly responsible for halting DNA damage, which means cancerous cells can not mutate and form tumors.

Aside from the feat of answering the longstanding question of how the lymph system arises, understanding how it forms and develops can provide important insights into disease, from metastasis to the abnormal accumulation of lymph fluids, particularly in the wake of surgery to remove cancerous tumors.

Bowel cancer, also called colorectal cancer, results from a series of genetic changes (mutations) that cause healthy cells to become progressively cancerous, first forming early tumors called polyps that can eventually become malignant.

The cells waste no time finding their cancerous cousins, slashing their way through a lab - prepared gel to quickly join other melanoma cells and form tumors.

CellSearch is used primarily to check the progress of cancer treatment, whereas U.C.L.A.'s imaging technology could find cancerous cells at an earlier stage, before they can form a new tumor.

She also collected visceral fat tissue from women undergoing hysterectomies and found that when the fat secretions had more of the FGF2 protein, more of the cells formed cancerous tumors when transferred into mice.

However, cancerous tumors are formed when the immune system is unable to remove these diseased cells.

The study's findings, published in the journal Cancer Research, are the first to use these combined agents as an immune stimulator and may have the potential to kill cancerous cells in solid tumors, including some of the most aggressive cancers that form in the lung and pancreas.

Doctors usually do the most common form of radiation therapy with x-rays, which can penetrate tissue, killing the cancerous cells in deep - seated tumors.

Like roads built to support a suburban development, new blood vessels form in and around tumors, sustaining the cancerous cells.

After more than a year of planning, the project had an easy - to - use, online consent form in which MBC patients could agree to share medical records, treatment history and tumor tissue and donate saliva samples (allowing researchers to analyze both their cancerous tumors and noncancerous cells).

Cancerous cells cluster together to form a mass called a tumor and can spread throughout the body to other, more distant areas.

Cancerous tumors that form on the larynx itself usually cause a change in voice and, if they become large enough, can cause difficulty speaking.

Blueberries in particular have an antioxidant called ellagic acid, and according to professionals, this form of acid could slow down the growth of some cancerous tumors.

And, although this effect may help to prevent heart attacks and other forms of heart disease, it may have the potential to promote cancer as well by increasing the growth of blood vessels in cancerous tumors.

About one half of all mammary tumors are benign (not cancerous), which would fall into the category of mammary fibroadenoma, tumors that form out of the glandular portion of the mammary gland.

«Dog lumps on skin (also called dog skin tumors) can have many causes such as an insect bite that results in an abscess where pus forms under the skin, lipomas (fatty tumors which are usually benign or not cancerous), skin tumors or cysts.

Both benign (not cancerous) and malignant tumors (adenocarcinoma and the less common adenoma), lymphoma and melanoma canine cancers can form in these glands.

Literally cancer can form anywhere in the body, and hemangiosarcomas are cancerous cells and tumors that form in the blood vessels throughout a dog's body.