Sentences with phrase «get heart tumors»

Researchers can't explain why male rats get heart tumors but some believe male rats developed these tumors because they were much bigger in size and likely exposed to more radiation than their female counterparts.

Not exact matches

We get heavily hyped drugs like Avastin, which shrank tumors without adding significant time to cancer patients» lives (and increased the incidence of heart failure and blood clots to boot); Avandia, which lowered blood sugar in diabetics but raised the average risk of heart attack by 43 percent; torcetrapib, which raised both good cholesterol and death rates; and Flurizan, which reduced brain plaque but failed to slow the cognitive ravages of Alzheimer's disease before trials were finally halted in 2008.

However, an interesting finding in the study revealed that male rats exposed to high radiation grew tumors in their hearts while the female rats did not get tumors.

While the drive to win can be rather fierce and it's true that steroid usage can get you to the top faster than anything else, performance - enhancing drugs can also have fatal side effects, including heart problems, liver abnormalities and tumors, drug dependence, impotence and infertility.

One thing that you really need to do no matter what you do about surgery is help him lose weight - he may actually lose a little bulk in the tumor and make the surgery easier on him (or he may not need it if it shrinks enough) but it will make him a better anesthetic candidate and is better for his heart and joints as he gets older.