Sentences with phrase «initial tumor site»

Melanoma is more likely than other skin cancers to spread beyond the initial tumor site to other organs, but all the patients had localized disease.

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However, metastatic tumors continued to appear over time in untreated sites likely because those tumors were so small at initial treatment that they were not detected.

This long - term analysis confirms that treated tumors did not reappear at the original site; and late toxicity, beyond what was seen in the initial report, did not appear.

Intensive local therapy was followed by up to a year of less intense systemic treatment with cis - retinoic acid (a derivative of vitamin A) and interferon in an effort to control any microscopic tumors that had spread to distant sites from the initial cancer.

11/19/2007 New Technology to Treat Breast Cancer Shows Promise in Early Application Physicians at the Rebecca and John Moores UCSD Cancer Center will present the initial outcomes of their use of a new device that delivers radiation therapy to a specific tumor site at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (R...

Tumor growth in different glands is usually multifocal, (meaning the tumors develop in many sites), rather than from spread or seeding of tumor cells from a single initial Tumor growth in different glands is usually multifocal, (meaning the tumors develop in many sites), rather than from spread or seeding of tumor cells from a single initial tumor cells from a single initial site.

Initial evaluation of a dog with a suspected bone tumor often includes: complete physical exam, blood tests, radiographs (both the primary site and the lungs), and a biopsy.