Sentences with phrase «distant organs of the body»
A doctor treating a patient with a potentially fatal metastatic breast tumor would be very pleased to find, after administering a round of treatment, that the primary tumor had undergone a change in character — from aggressive to static, and no longer shedding cells that can colonize distant organs of the body.
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Also known as metastatic cancer, this type of cancer has spread to distant organs and lymph nodes in the body.
The command center for our endocrine glands is in our brain — the hypothalamus and pituitary glands — and they send signals to distant parts of the body to control everything from our stress response through our adrenal glands to our blood sugar balance through our pancreas to our thyroid hormone via our thyroid gland to our sexual behavior and function through our reproductive organs.