Sentences with phrase «causing lung tumors»

The body's immune system is not effective in causing lung tumors to regress.

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Unlike Ruth Levy, whose lung cancer caused her no physical pain, Mr. Smith's tumor pressed against his spine and kept him in agony much of the time.

Principal Investigator John Morris, MD, clinical co-leader of the Molecular Therapeutics and Diagnosis Program for the CCC, co-leader of the UC Cancer Institute's Comprehensive Lung Cancer Program, professor in the division of hematology oncology at the UC College of Medicine and UC Health medical oncologist, says a number of antitumor vaccines have shown promise for causing immune responses against tumor antigens to improve patient outcomes.

By identifying the cause of this metastasis — which often happens quickly in lung cancer and results in a bleak survival rate — Salk scientists are able to explain why some tumors are more prone to spreading than others.

She says they can now identify the mechanisms that cause tumor growth in half of all adenocarcinomas, a family of cancer that affects skin and other tissue, including the lungs.

Lung cancer is the most common cause of cancer deaths, accounting for about a third of all tumor - related deaths.

They found that early phenformin treatment causes increased survival and slower tumor progression in tumors lacking LKB1, but had no significant benefit for tumors with alterations in other lung cancer genes.

The researchers used a modified virus to insert genetic mutations into cells lining the mice's lungs, causing the animals to develop tumors.

TSC is a genetic disorder that cause tumors to form in various organs, primarily the brain, eyes, heart, kidneys, skin and lungs.

And another one in rodents with lung cancer published in Science Translational Medicine in 2014 found that normal doses of vitamin E and smaller doses of acetylcysteine, an antioxidant supplement, appeared to lead to a three-fold increase in the number of tumors and caused them to be more aggressive.

Most tumors that produce ACTH originate in the pituitary but sometimes non-pituitary tumors, usually in the lungs, can also produce too much ACTH and cause Cushing syndrome.

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.

«Permethrin has been implicated as a carcinogenic insecticide causing lung cancer and liver tumors in laboratory animals.

Valvular defects, tumors, heartworms, heart beat abnormalities, and damaged to the muscle itself all cause the heart to enlarge and blood to pool in the organs and lungs.

Permethrin, which is the common denominator in most of these products, is a broad spectrum insecticide / pesticide, that works as an endocrine disruptor and a carcinogenic insecticide, causing lung cancer and liver tumors in laboratory animals.

Both may cause parasitic tumors in the liver, lungs, and brain of infected people.

Infections in humans do not completely develop, but may cause a lesion in the lungs «coin sign» that may be mistaken for a tumor.

Over time, the malignant tumor grows and causes urinary obstruction, and spreads to the lymph nodes, lung, bones, and other areas of the body.

The treatment may cause scarring of the heart muscle or lung tissue near the tumor.

Intervertebal disc problems requiring surgery, lung tumors, gastric torsion, things eaten and lodged in the intestine or stomach requiring surgery, torn knee ligament, cataract removal, bone tumor, auto accidents causing broken bones, brain tumors

Other, but rarer, causes of metastatic calcification include kidney disease (this is the most common cause in cats), malignant tumors producing abnormal hormones that increase blood calcium concentrations (e.g. tumors of the lymphoid system and glands of the anal sac), diabetes mellitus and lung disease.

Another main trigger is the involuntary movement of the hairlike cilia in the respiratory tract which remove foreign matter from the air before it gets into the lungs, but other underlying causes can include mucous irritation, obstruction of the nasal passage, inflammation, excess nasal discharge or secretion, pneumonia, chronic vomiting, GI disease, and nasal tumors and dental diseases in older dogs.

These help rule out other causes of respiratory symptoms like heart enlargement, fluid in or around the lungs, tumors or pneumonia.

Since the most common cause of death is not the tumor, but the spread of cancer to the lungs, chemotherapy is used to make sure that all of the cancer cells are killed (Adriamycin (doxorubicin) and cisplatin or carboplatin).

That's directly contradicted by the information on the link you provided, which indicates that hydrazine causes tumors of the lungs, blood vessels, intenstines, etc..

Mesothelioma can cause cancerous tumors in the lungs or stomach.

Eventually, the fibers push into the lining of the lungs, where they can cause inflammation, irritation and tumors.