Sentences with phrase «developed ductal»

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Furthermore, the normal ductal cells that are able to develop into pancreatic cancer represent about 10 percent of the cells in the pancreas, complicating efforts to pinpoint the changes that occur as the tumor develops.

Stomnes, a postdoctoral researcher working with Philip Greenberg, M.D., and Sunil Hingorani, M.D., Ph.D., at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center at the University of Washington, has developed a mouse model of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma that is particularly good for studying this disease.

For example, women with stage 0 breast cancer may have ductal carcinoma in situ or DCIS, in which abnormal cells have developed in the lining of a breast duct.

While ductal carcinoma in situ develops in the duct's lining of the breasts, lobular carcinoma in situ develops in the lobules — the parts of the breast tissue that is responsible for the production of milk.

In many cases, physicians will find that the patient also has a ductal carcinoma in situ tumor, but there are some patients that are also diagnosed with an invasive type of breast cancer when a physician find that they have developed Paget disease.