Sentences with phrase «into precancerous»

However, when old cells return to a stem cell - like status, they can carry with them all of the mutations that have accumulated to date, predisposing some of those cells to developing into precancerous lesions.

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10 - 15 years: time for precancerous changes to develop into cervical cancer (average age of diagnosis is 50).

If precancerous cells remain untreated and develop into cervical cancer, there's a chance you'll need a hysterectomy (removal of the uterus), which would rule out any future pregnancies.

While scientists previously thought that a drug targeting TGF - ß would only be useful in advanced cancers, she discovered that the same drug may help prevent precancerous cells from turning into cancer.

Beverly Emerson studies how different genes are turned on and off through the course of a cancer — from the time cells become precancerous until the time they develop into a mature cancer and spread to new organs.

Our scientists in Cambridge have developed a specialised camera that could help detect precancerous changes that may develop into oesophageal cancer.

Cervical dysplasia is strongly correlated with the virus HPV, or human papillomavirus, that turns healthy cervical cells into abnormal, precancerous cells.

And a false negative result might allow precancerous cells to develop into cancer if they are not detected in a future round of Pap testing.