Sentences with phrase «developing ovarian tumors»

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«This finding,» Villanueva said «opens the door to developing new biomarkers and new therapeutic strategies exploiting these characteristics of exosomes in breast tumors, and other tumors such as ovarian and endometrial cancer among others.»

In some cases such as ovarian cancer, however, drug - free intervals are needed to allow patient recovery from side effects, during which tumors can sometimes begin to grow again or develop resistance to the drugs being used.

Now, MIT engineers have developed a far more sensitive way to reveal ovarian tumors: In tests in mice, they were able to detect tumors composed of nodules smaller than 2 millimeters in diameter.

A surgical algorithm developed and implemented by ovarian cancer specialists at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center dramatically increases the frequency of complete removal of all visible tumor — a milestone strongly tied to improved survival.

The approach developed by the MGH team starts with the engineered protein, which in this case fuses an antibody fragment targeting a protein called mesothelin — expressed on the surface of such tumors as mesothelioma, ovarian cancer and pancreatic cancer — to a protein from the tuberculosis bacteria that stimulates the activity of dendritic and other immune cells.

Spayed / neutered pets are less likely to develop mammary tumors and ovarian or testicular cancers.

Un-spayed females: Breast cancer (50 % of intact females develop mamory tumors), uterine infections (pyometra), false pregnancies, mastitis, ovarian and uterine tumors, uterine torsion, uterine prolapse, vaginal hyperplasia and prolapse, chronic endometritis, cystic ovaries, and venereal sarcomoa.

Most ovarian tumors are age dependent so an older animal has more risk of developing tumors.

• Spayed pets are less likely to develop mammary tumors and / or ovarian cancer and neutered pets are less likely to develop testicular cancers.