Sentences with phrase «finds other tumors»

If your doctor finds other tumors, you may need a mastectomy to remove the entire breast.

We have found no other tumors on her body.

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Others have found that bacteria within the tumors themselves can influence the effectiveness of traditional chemotherapy as well.

A breast ultrasound is used find tumors and other breast abnormalities.

Once they have consumed all the oxygen and nutrients in the original tumor site, the cancer cells travel to other parts of the body (metastasize) to find more nourishment.

In the Cell study, Dr. Massagué, with Fellow Manuel Valiente, PhD, and other team members, found that in mouse models of breast and lung cancer — two tumor types that often spread to the brain — many cancer cells that enter the brain are killed by astrocytes.

We found that the inflammation unfortunately gets hijacked by tumor cells that are able to grow faster and penetrate deeper because the blood vessels in the brain are more permeable than in any other part of the body.

The cells waste no time finding their cancerous cousins, slashing their way through a lab - prepared gel to quickly join other melanoma cells and form tumors.

«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.»

These findings also have implications for treatment of cancer and other disorders, such as obesity, in which M2 macrophage cells play a regulatory role in tumor growth and fat deposition.

The team then added either of two chemotherapy cocktails commonly used for colorectal cancer to the fishes» water and found that some of the tumors shrank and others didn't.

After revealing how these bacteria degraded the drug, he began to wonder if other bacteria might have a similar mechanism for inactivating the drug, and whether such bacteria might be found inside human tumors.

The findings also have potential uses for most other types of solid tumors, including those affecting the lungs and ovaries, because the same protein and enzyme are involved, François said.

The test can help find ulcers, colon polyps, tumors and other areas of inflammation or bleeding.

Drugs that enhance a process called oxidative stress were found to kill rhabdomyosarcoma tumor cells growing in the laboratory and possibly bolstered the effectiveness of chemotherapy against this aggressive tumor of muscle and other soft tissue.

In mice with pancreatic tumors, Kalbasi and other members of the team found relatively high levels of inflammatory compounds including CCL2, the signaling molecule that activates CCR2 on monocytes and macrophages to make these cells migrate to tumors.

Following cancer therapy, the dominant cells may die first, and other cells that were originally not as fit may find themselves better able to compete for necessary space and nutrients and continue to grow and take over the tumor.

Instead, researchers told the European Breast Cancer Conference that their findings suggest that extending screening programs to older women results in a large proportion of women being over-treated, and at risk from the harmful effects of such treatment, because these women were more likely to die from other causes than from any tumors detected in the early stages of growth.

Using tumor biopsies from BRAF melanoma patients treated with either BRAF inhibitors or with combined BRAF and MEK inhibitors, a recently FDA - approved drug combination to fight the other mechanisms of resistance, the researchers found that tumors resistant to the BRAF inhibitors had increased levels of autophagy compared with baseline tumors.

Other scientists had found evidence that KRAS could drive such tumors.

Metastasis, or cancer spread by the formation of tumors at new sites, is generally what makes cancers deadly because surgery and other treatments are unlikely to find and destroy every cancer cell.

Chemotherapy and other cancer treatments are supposed to get rid of the disease, but a new study finds they can elicit aggressive tumor growth instead, STAT reports today.

This finding may help researchers decipher how to inhibit the growth of tumors that have become resistant to other treatments.

Other studies have found that nutrients in dark, leafy greens may inhibit the growth of tumor cells in breast, skin, lung and stomach cancers and that green tea may thwart cancer development in colon, liver, breast and prostate cells.

How aspirin works is a longstanding puzzle, but Harris and others theorize that it may help inhibit cancer by blocking cyclooxygenase - 2, or COX - 2, an enzyme commonly found in malignant tumors.

Researchers found that patients with a higher amount or higher proportion of an inflammatory protein called type 1 interferon beta compared with another inflammatory protein, type 1 interferon alpha, do not respond as well to tumor necrosis factor inhibitors as others.

Deep convolutional networks are all the rage at Google, Facebook, Apple and other Silicon Valley companies seeking to automatically label images, translate speech to text, detect pedestrians in videos and find tumors in breast scans.

AFP reports that Israeli researchers found that frequent cell phone users — described as people who chatter on mobiles more than 22 hours a month — had a nearly 50 percent higher risk than others of developing a tumor on the parotid gland (the largest of the salivary glands on the side of the face just in front of the ear).

They also tested other cancer lines — human cervical, lung and prostate cancers — and found that they responded to the patterned tumor environments in the same way.

«Furthermore, the findings may extend to other cancers because previous research has shown a link between enhanced PLK1 expression and invasiveness of colorectal, breast and thyroid tumors.»

Dozens of other studies have found that animals exposed to light at night develop tumors more readily than do those kept in the dark.

Scientists have found a way to target elusive cells that suppress immune response, depleting them with peptides that spare other important cells and shrink tumors in preclinical experiments, according to a paper published online by Nature Medicine.

«We found an association between increased breast cancer recurrence in women with a primary breast cancer tumor that was positive for the IGF1 receptor, which is consistent with other studies,» said Emond.

«It was the only marker we could find on her tumor; and it turns out, on just about every other tumor we tested, too.»

Once the tumors were established, they introduced a mutated form of KRAS, which is commonly found in colon and many other cancers.

The next stage of research conducted by Prins and Liau will verify these findings in other brain tumor models.

They found that the defect is highly sensitive to an existing FDA - approved drug used to treat ovarian cancer — a discovery that challenges current practice for treatment of brain tumors and other cancers with the same genetic defect, said the scientists.

Among these is BRG1 (also called SMARCA4) and the latest generation - sequencing technologies have extended these findings to other tumor types evidencing that BRG1 inactivation is widespread in cancer.

Rothschild hasn't been able to identify the dinosaur species, but the growths resemble benign tumors called hemangiomas found today in the bones of humans and other animals.

The researchers found that in B cell tumors, mutated overactive versions of the Notch protein directly drive the expression of the Myc gene and many other genes that participate in B cell signaling pathways.

Furthermore, the agent prevented the drop in the number of neutrophils (i.e., neutropenia) found in the blood that is typically caused by 5 - fluorouracil, a chemotherapy agent commonly used in the treatment of gastrointestinal and other tumors, such as colon, stomach, pancreas and breast cancers.

Generally tumors that happen in older people have more mutations, and for other kinds of cancers the number of mutations has been found to be related to the response to immunotherapy: Older people can have tumors that have more mutations and sometimes they can be more responsive to immunotherapy but, really, it's just luck; there's no hard - and - fast rule about age being related to response to immunotherapy.

The team also found that these genes had different functions in promoting metastasis: One group encouraged growth of tumor cells in both breast and lungs, whereas the other only helped the new tumor thrive in the lungs.

Certain kinds of tumors have been found to be more aggressive and associated with less than favorable prognoses compared to others.

These tumors occur primarily on the skin but may also arise in other tissues where pigment cells are found.

«We find that drug - sensitive tumor cells respond in similar ways to some classes of drugs and very different ways to other classes of drugs,» Sorger said.

The authors undertook a higher - resolution survey of these associations within tumor subtypes, finding known driver events, such as amplifications of MYC, CCND1, ERBB2, and CCNE1 and deletions of PTEN and MDM2, as well as putative but suggestive events involving MDM1, MDM4, CDK3, CDK4, PI4KB, NCOR1, and others.

Investigators also found genomic similarities between endometrial cancers and other tumor types.

They found that early phenformin treatment causes increased survival and slower tumor progression in tumors lacking LKB1, but had no significant benefit for tumors with alterations in other lung cancer genes.

Once they find such tumor neo-antigens, as they're called, they could design other immunotherapy strategies that could target them.