Sentences with phrase «growing tumor areas»

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These are indications that areas of diseased tissue could be dying, while other parts of a tumor could be rapidly growing or becoming more aggressive.

Here, they observed that while estrogen receptor was absent in cancer cells, it was prevalent and in many cases increased in the so - called tumor microenvironment — the area around the tumor that helps it grow.

There may be a slow - growing tumor in certain areas of the brain that can cause dementia symptoms.

The anticoagulant property might prevent cancerous cells that break away from tumors from sticking to other areas in the body and growing into metastatic tumors.

For example, a person with stage 1 colorectal cancer may be assigned a grade of T1, N0, M0, meaning that the tumor may have grown into one of the muscle layers in the gastrointestinal tract but hasn't spread to nearby lymph nodes or other, more distant areas of the body.

In some cases, a person with cancer will notice symptoms during the early stages of the disease, but in other instances, the cancer can go unnoticed until the tumor has either grown in size (putting pressure on an organ, for example) or spread to other areas in the body.

Tumors like these are «benign,» meaning that even though they may grow slowly in size, they do not spread to other body parts nor invade aggressively into surrounding areas.

Over time, the malignant tumor grows and causes urinary obstruction, and spreads to the lymph nodes, lung, bones, and other areas of the body.

This is because as these tumors grow, they start to press on different areas of the brain.

This tumor has an unusual pattern of growth, therefore your veterinarian will need to remove a much larger area of skin surrounding the tumor than you expect, due to small projections or tendrils of the tumor that grow within the skin.

These types of tumors grow slowly and only result in any symptoms when then begin to negatively impact any adjacent areas.