Sentences with phrase «find small tumors»

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Even before treatment, cancer patients in the study had a small number of infection - and tumor - fighting T cells that target these unusual proteins, the researchers found.

The surgeons make a small incision in the patient's ear canal and use the endoscope to help find and remove the tumor.

«We wanted to utilize platelets» intrinsic tendencies to accumulate at wounds and to interact with circulating tumor cells, for targeted delivery of immune checkpoint inhibitors» said Gu, «Interestingly, we found the antibody can be promoted to release from activated platelets in the surgical site, due to generation of small platelet - derived microparticles upon the platelet activation.

Upon sequencing the DNA, they found that DNA fragments containing mutated genes — markers of tumors — were typically smaller than healthy versions of the gene from within the same patient.

Von Maltzahn and Bhatia are developing ways to use nanobots nearly 500 times smaller than Montréal Polytechnic's microbots that can find their way to cancerous tumors without needing to be guided from outside the body.

After ten days of PDT treatment, the tumors were found to be far smaller than comparative groups not treated with light.

Weisman said it should be possible to noninvasively find small ovarian tumors within rodents used for medical research by linking nanotubes to antibody biomarkers and administering the biomarkers intravenously.

They found that, by using math models to understand the complex dynamics within cancers, they could use small changes in the environment to promote the growth of cells that are less aggressive and thereby decrease tumor growth.

Most of the cells that made up the tumors were positive for CA125, but the researchers found a small population that were negative and focused on those, Janzen said.

• A patient's undifferentiated small bowel sarcoma was found to contain a KIT gene deletion, resulting in a revised diagnosis of GIST (gastrointestinal stromal tumor) that was successfully treated with imatinib.

Finding cancer early can improve a patient's chances for survival, but small tumors can be difficult to see with scanning techniques such as magnetic resonance...

The researchers found that non-Hispanic white women were more likely to have smaller tumors, and more likely to have the less - aggressive HR + / HER2 - subtype of breast cancer, compared with African - American women, who were more likely to have large tumors, more likely to have the aggressive triple - negative breast cancer, and 40 to 70 percent more likely to be diagnosed at stage 4 of all subtypes of breast cancer.

In these experiments, the virus managed to infect and destroy only a small proportion of tumor cells directly, the researchers found, but within five days of the initial infection, the rest of the tumor began to be killed by a powerful immune reaction.

An initial five - year, multicenter study of cryoablation to treat early - stage breast cancer sponsored by the National Cancer Institute found it to be 92 percent effective for complete ablation of invasive breast tumors smaller than 2 centimeters and 100 percent effective for complete ablation of invasive ductal breast cancer tumors smaller than 1 centimeter.

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.

The researchers, studying women with node - negative breast cancer — the small, early tumors sought by mammography — found that by adding E-cadherin to other biomarkers that they have studied they are able to distinguish those patients with a 90 percent long - term survival from those whose survival is only 44 percent.

The growth of new blood vessels tends to occur quite early for most cancers; even small tumors found via mammogram frequently have a high microvessel count (MVC).

And a study by other researchers had found that more than half of small bowel tumors had AIM2 mutations.

But two Decembers ago, at age 36, I found out I had a small breast tumor.

In addition, P32 - labeled peptides may serve another valuable use: to find small metastases or recurrences of colon tumors while they are still small enough to treat.

Because of small sample size, the changes in tumor - initiating cell number were not significant (P > 0.05), but these data are supportive of the in vitro findings and suggest that hypoxia may have a positive effect on the tumor - initiating cell population in ER - α — positive breast cancers and a negative effect in ER - α — negative tumors.

Pre-malignant aneuploid cells grew more slowly and formed smaller tumors than comparable cells with normal chromosome number, CSHL researchers found...

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.

Neuroendocrine tumors can actually grow anywhere in the body, according to the Mayo Clinic, but they're usually found in the appendix, pancreas, small intestines, or lungs.

In 2006 Nixon a.k.aMaranda Hobbs was given the news that a small tumor had been found after a mammogram.

If a tumor is identified when it is small, it may be possible to remove the spleen if the tumor is there or to remove tumors found near the heart and prolong the dog's life.

The majority of insulinoma tumors range in size from 2 - 5 mm and are easy to find, but some are smaller and can be missed.

If a tumor is identified when it is small it may be possible to remove the spleen if the tumor is there or even to remove tumors found near the heart and prolong the pet's life.