Sentences with phrase «for tumor tissue samples»

«Our findings show that high - intensity circulating tumor DNA sequencing is possible and may provide invaluable information for clinical decision - making, potentially without any need for tumor tissue samples,» said lead study author Pedram Razavi, MD, PhD, a medical oncologist and instructor in medicine at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) in New York, NY.

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Plasma samples of patients with NSCLC is a less invasive method and has been used as surrogate tumor tissues for detecting genetic alterations.

The authors acknowledge that «tumor tissue should be considered the preferred sample type when available, however, our encouraging results suggest that a single plasma - derived ctDNA sample may be considered appropriate for assessment of EGFR mutation status when tumor tissue is unavailable or exhausted.»

The researchers next will turn to analyzing the presence of myoferlin in samples from numerous human tumor types available in an Ohio State tissue bank, which will allow them to compare protein levels in tumors to clinical outcomes for the patients who provided the samples.

For the study, researchers investigated tissue samples from 297 people with brain tumors.

They analyzed bacterial DNA found in breast tissue samples from 58 women who were undergoing lumpectomies or mastectomies for either benign or cancerous tumors, as well as from 23 healthy women who had undergone breast reductions or enhancements.

«Being able to safely take tissue samples will also allow us to test for specific tumor sub-types and better decide the most appropriate treatment for each individual patient,» added Dr Booton.

NYGC computational biologists and members of the Simon Laboratory at The Rockefeller University discussed the possibility of using a series of computer algorithms to search for sequence differences between the tumor samples and samples of healthy liver tissue.

The researchers took healthy tissue and tumor samples from mice, and trained the nanoparticle - GFP sensors to recognize the bad cells, and for the GFP to fluoresce in the presence of metastatic tissues.

To that end, Sharma gave an overview of MD Anderson's efforts to comprehensively characterize the activity of the immune cells in the patients they treat, and they've already analyzed over 42,000 tumor tissue samples, from both before and after treatment, looking for clues regarding how treatment outcomes relate to immune cell infiltration into tumors.

Guided by a camera and the ultrasound probe, Waxman carefully positioned the endoscope over the tumor and passed a fine needle into the pancreatic lesion to sample tissue cells for biopsy.

The researchers used tumor tissue samples from melanoma patients to search for variations in their internal messaging.

3/24/2008 Non-Invasive Imaging Provides Window Into Genetic Properties of Brain Tumors Doctors diagnose and prescribe treatment for brain tumors by studying, under a microscope, tumor tissue and cell samples obtained through invasive biopsy or suTumors Doctors diagnose and prescribe treatment for brain tumors by studying, under a microscope, tumor tissue and cell samples obtained through invasive biopsy or sutumors by studying, under a microscope, tumor tissue and cell samples obtained through invasive biopsy or surgery.

In tumor samples, where we frequently encounter variants with a very small allele frequency due to contamination with normal tissue, copy number variation, and tumor heterogeneity, high coverage is essential for accurate detection of these variants with high power.

For example, proteins related to angiogenesis, the process through which new blood vessels form to ensure supply of oxygen and nutrients to a tissue such as a tumor, are found to be clearly associated to clinical outcome in HPV - positive samples.

Also stored in those freezers are tumor tissue samples that can be used for research.