Sentences with phrase «how tumors form»

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Aside from the feat of answering the longstanding question of how the lymph system arises, understanding how it forms and develops can provide important insights into disease, from metastasis to the abnormal accumulation of lymph fluids, particularly in the wake of surgery to remove cancerous tumors.

Although there have been great advances made in the treatment of leukemias and other cancers, little is known about how Glioblastomas are formed and how these tumors infiltrate the brain tissue.

Researchers at the University of Iowa did just that, documenting in real time and in 3 - D how melanoma cells form tumors.

«How melanoma tumors form: Team identifies drugs that halt skin cancer metastasis in lab tests.»

Biology professor David Soll and his team used unique computer - assisted 3 - D reconstruction software to chronicle how both breast tissue cancer cells and melanoma cells form tumors.

Dr. Cripe and his colleagues at The Ohio State University, the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center tested how well the oncolytic viral therapy — a cancer - killing form of the herpes simplex virus, called oHSV — infected and killed tumor cells in mice with and without a healthy immune system.

Duke Medicine researchers have shown how gene mutations may cause common forms of cartilage tumors.

Study results revealed previously unknown interplay between two key enzymes and a novel understanding of how brain cancer tumors form and spread, according to researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

Pathologists classify tumors by how far their cells deviate from their normal forms, while hematologists identify and count different leukocytes by sight.

«Recent successes in cancer immunotherapy — in the form of immune checkpoint inhibitors and adoptive T cell transfer — demonstrate how activated immune cells can eradicate tumors, but until now we didn't fully appreciate immunosurveillance or the role of adaptive immunity in tumor formation,» said senior author Michael Karin, PhD, Distinguished Professor of Pharmacology and Pathology at UC San Diego School of Medicine.

This is important for the basic understanding of how these tumors are formed and can contribute to the development of more efficient and specific glioma therapies.

They also revealed more detail about how prostate cancer spreads, showing that the group of cells that first spread from the prostate carry on traveling around the body, forming more secondary tumors.

A study led by scientists from Harvard Medical School reveals «hidden» variability in how tumor cells are affected by anticancer drugs, offering new insights on why patients with the same form of cancer can have different responses to a drug.

According to recent research, the most common solid tumors (that is, cancer that occurs as clusters of cells in or on organs, rather than in liquid form within the blood or lymphatic system) have up to 66 mutations that influence how the cancer cells operate — how fast they divide, whether they are susceptible to the signals that would normally cause a cell to die, when they detach from the main tumor to colonize another organ in the body, when and where they attach blood vessels to healthy tissues.

The knowledge about how this cancer form arises and develops is still limited but new results from a research team led by Lene Uhrbom, Uppsala University / SciLifeLab, shows that disease progress and the malignancy are affected by the cell type from which the tumor originates as well as the age of the patient.

Massachusetts General Hospital pathologist Bradley Bernstein has studied how alterations to chromatin drive glioblastomas, the most common form of brain tumor.

Researchers led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists have worked out how a crucial cancer - related protein, a «histone writer» called Ezh2, plays a role in suppressing as well as driving the most aggressive form of the brain tumor medulloblastoma.