Sentences with phrase «certain smaller tumors»

Sterotactic radiosurgery can be the preferred option in certain smaller tumors.

Not exact matches

Adding the monoclonal antibody drug trastuzumab — already used to treat certain breast cancers — to the chemotherapy regimen of women with a rare form of uterine cancer lengthens the amount of time their tumors are kept from growing, according to Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers conducting a small phase II trial of the regimen, testing its safety and value.

By giving a single small dose of certain chemicals (aromatic polycyclic hydrocarbons) to selected strains of female rats he found he could produce, within a few weeks, malignant mammary tumors — many of which were hormone dependent — in 100 percent of the treated animals.