Sentences with phrase «increase cancer tumour»

This is problematic not only because the body isn't getting the nutritional and protective benefits, but also because un-metabolised Folic Acid has been shown to increase cancer tumour growth.

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The chances of being cured of breast cancer have increased in recent decades, however if the tumour has metastasised, the disease remains essentially incurable.

«The increased death rate is cause for concern, because the prognosis for this tumour is bleak, with less than five percent of pancreatic cancer patients surviving for five years after diagnosis.

Inherited mutations of the tumour suppressor gene CDKN2A are the strongest known risk factors for familial melanoma and mutations in this gene also increase the risk of other cancers.

Mutations in the gene predispose to colon cancer and cancer of the uterus, and increase the risk of developing some other, rare tumours.

This ductoscopy technique enabled the pathologists to identify the exact duct leading to the tumour and subsequently classify genetic alterations either increasing or decreasing as they moved nearer to the cancer.

«Some of these genes were either increased or decreased in the area of the tumour, no matter the type of breast cancer, and this is important because within the patterns we identified were predictable alterations.

Dr Sophie Roerink, joint first author from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, said: «We found mutational processes in these cancer cells that are just not seen in normal cells, leading to a huge increase in mutation rate for tumours compared with normal cells.

Targeting the tumour blood supply seems to be a promising way to increase the effectiveness of chemotherapy in cervical cancer, Symonds says.

It is known that a diet rich in fat can increase the risk of developing prostate cancer, and that obese people are more prone to develop this type of tumour.

When the two species were put into mice predisposed to get bowel cancer, the number of tumours that formed dramatically increased (Science, doi.org/cj4w).

The virus, code - named JX - 954, targets two genes involved in cancer cell growth and blood supply, which show increased activity in tumours.

Research into the genes that control how breast cancer responds to treatment will help doctors provide patients with the most effective treatment for their tumour as early as possible, increasing their chance of survival.

Two years post-launch, we've seen an increase in funding for research into lung, pancreatic and oesophageal cancers and brain tumours — together totalling # 74.7 million in 2015/16.

Therefore, in some cases the process of inserting the healthy gene can increase the activity of cancer - linked genes, leading to tumour formation.

The increasing number of drugs targeting specific proteins implicated in tumourigenesis and the commercial promotion of relatively affordable genome - wide analyses has led to an increasing expectation among patients with cancer that they can now receive effective personalised treatment based on the often complex genomic signature of their tumour.

In their conclusions the researchers decided that appropriate L - glutamine supplementation can considerably improve the metabolism and entire clinical state of cancer patients without increasing tumour growth.

Possible prevention of cancer due to increasing the activity of a protein called P53, which suppresses tumour formation.