Sentences with phrase «for tumor location»

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After adjusting for age, tumor location, and stage, researchers from Cleveland Clinic's Dermatology & Plastic Surgery Institute discovered that women diagnosed with malignant melanoma during their pregnancy or within one year of giving birth were 5.1 - times as likely to die, 6.9 - times as likely to experience metastasis, and 9.2 - times more likely to have a recurrence.

Moreover, primary tumor locations should be carefully considered when deciding treatment intensity in metastatic and locoregional settings, and should represent an important stratification factor for future adjuvant studies,» the article concludes.

When the scientists inserted human colorectal cancer cells into zebrafish embryos and allowed them to grow for 4 days, the resulting tumors showed three hallmarks of human solid tumors: rapid cell division, formation of blood vessels to supply nutrients, and the ability to spread to other locations in the body.

This location represents a particular challenge for surgeons, since the tumors are technically difficult to access and, because of the anatomically constricted space in the lesser pelvis, the view of the operating area is restricted.

«For example, mouse mammary tumors shared a signaling pathway that is found in human lung cancer and controls how cells reproduce and move from one location to another.»

Although MRI can be performed without contrast or enhancing agents, the addition of such agents is often critical for obtaining the detailed images needed for physicians to find the precise location of brain tumors.

But diffusion MRI suffers from magnetic field artifacts that can distort the actual location of tumors by as much as 1.2 centimeters or roughly half an inch — a significant distance when surgeons are attempting, for example, to assess whether a tumor extends beyond the prostate and into adjacent nerve bundles.

Each chart was reviewed for patient demographics, presenting symptoms and signs, tumor location and size, imaging findings, extent of surgical resection, histopathological findings, radiographic follow - up, tumor recurrence, and clinical outcome.

In fact, the Food and Drug Administration's approval of pembrolizumab in May 2017 for adult and pediatric patients with solid tumors and high microsatellite instability, was the first time it had approved a cancer treatment based on a genetic feature rather than the cancer's location of origin.

What followed is an illuminating tale of how one woman's intersection with experimental research helped open a new frontier in cancer treatment — with approval of a drug that, for the first time, capitalizes on a genetic feature in a tumor rather than on the disease's location in the body.

The primary tumor location was an independent prognostic marker in patients with RAS wild - type metastatic colorectal cancer after adjusting for age, gender, synchronous / metachronous disease, consensus molecular subtype, and microsatellite instability and molecular status, according to the results of an analysis (abstract 3503) of data from CALGB / SWOG 80405 presented at the 2017 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting.

His basic studies have allowed him to validate the B - subunit of Shiga toxin (STxB) as a «pilot» for the delivery of therapeutic compounds to precise intracellular locations of dendritic and tumor cells (10 patent families, 5 of which are delivered in the US, Europe and other countries).

Also utilizing imaging, PIs Joseph Paydarfar, MD, Ryan Halter, PhD, and David Pastel, MD, will test their solution to the problem that, in patients with head and neck cancer, significant tissue deformation occurs during laryngoscopy, rendering pre-operative images unusable for assessing tumor extent and location of critical structures.

The prognosis for a dog diagnosed with melanoma depends on many factors, but the location of the tumor is primary.

The prognosis for cats with ISS varies depending on many factors, including the size, location, grade of the tumor, and the treatment modalities chosen to treat it.

Would it be possible for a fatty tumor to be painful because of location?

Finding a tumor early allows us to pinpoint its location for a future examination, removal, or biopsy.

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Current recommendations state injectable vaccines for cats should only be administered low on their legs, because if a tumor developed in this location, amputation could cure the issue.

SRS has also emerged as a viable treatment option for some cancers previously considered «untreatable» based on its ability to target tumors embedded in complex locations.

A complete evaluation of a dog suspected of having lymphosarcoma involves obtaining a biopsy or aspirate of the affected tissues and a search for tumor in other locations (this is what we call staging).

In some tumor locations, especially for suspected brain tumors, a biopsy diagnosis is not required for consideration of radiation therapy.

There are many methods for performing a biopsy, and the method used varies according to the location of the tumor in the dog's body.

We often classify osteosarcomas as appendicular or axial, because the location of the tumor may have implications both for the surgical approach as well as the tumor's biological behavior, and therefore require different follow - up treatments.

Treatment for soft tissue sarcomas depends on the tumor size and location.

Because of his breed and the location of the tumor we were given 2 options of radiation treatment that would shrink the tumor with minimal to no side effects and give Louie the chance to live a pain free life for as long as possible.