Sentences with phrase «into smaller tumors»

THURSDAY, May 3, 2018 (HealthDay News)-- Much of the debate over when to start having mammograms has focused on lives saved, but new research suggests that early screening might also translate into smaller tumors and less aggressive breast cancer treatments.

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However, researchers have long thought that tumors don't release intact cells into the bloodstream until relatively late in the disease, and then only in vanishingly small numbers.

«Particularly in such patients with underlying CKD, our modeling results support the integration of renal tumor anatomic features at cross-sectional imaging into decision making for treatment of small renal masses and may be used to provide a patient - centered framework for selection of optimal candidates for ablative therapy,» Kang said.

Still, how melanoma cells join into tumors — whether by individual cells coming together or small or large clusters of cells doing so — follows the same pattern as breast tissue cancer cells: Cables are extended to reel in other cells or clusters.

«We believe that small subsets of metastatic tumor cells have the ability to adopt the mechanisms used by immune cells to exit the blood vessels into the lungs, the bone marrow, the brain, and other organs.

The new «tumor in a dish» method begins by taking the cancerous tissue removed during surgery or biopsy, cutting it up into small pieces and putting them in a special collagen gel that maintains them as «organoids» that retain the three - dimensional structure of the original tumor and include supporting cells from the tumor's environment.

Researchers were able to complete the first genome - wide screen of a mouse by injecting small hairpin RNAs into the embryos of 100 pregnant mice and analyzing the animals after birth to look for genes that contributed to tumor growth.

«Safety thus far is likely a consequence of both the relatively small number of engineered macrophages that are injected and their sequestration into the tumors, away from most healthy cells,» Discher said.

If a small tumor can release enough DNA into the plasma of a patient for us to detect it, maybe a seven - pound baby could do the same.»

«While the failure of these drugs against brain metastasis has often been attributed to the blood brain barrier, some agents are small enough to penetrate into the brain,» says Rakesh K. Jain, PhD, director of the Steele Laboratories of Tumor Biology in the MGH Radiation Oncology Department, co-senior author of the report published in Science Translational Medicine.

Vescor, advised by its scientific founders White and Kimmelman, whose research has shown inhibition of autophagy can dramatically impact tumor growth in pre-clinical models, will develop small molecule inhibitors of a number of protein targets at critical nodes of the autophagy cascade, perform investigational new drug (IND) enabling studies, and move these into clinical development.

The mission of the Institute for Applied Cancer Science (IACS) is to apply scientific knowledge of mechanisms driving tumor development and maintenance into the development of impactful small molecule cancer therapies.

Approximately one million cells of each clone were inserted into 0.9 mm capillary tubes and centrifuged to form a small pellet; this amount corresponds to a small primary tumor, or average size metastasis.

The tumor was very small, but still the words «invasive ductal carcinoma» slammed into me like a runaway train.

Ultrasound can also be used to guide a needle into a diseased organ or a tumor to get a small sample of tissue.

Purpose: This clinical trial is being done to investigate whether small particles called nanoporhphyrins can be used to better visualize tumors during surgery and potentially to see if they will be a useful method to deliver drugs into brain tumors for treatment.

The tumor soon develops into a small pink or red mass, which if left untreated, can enlarge and spread around and behind the eye, to the skull, sinuses of the skull, brain and to other parts of the body.

Large and small animal nuclear medicine is available and is a subspecialty of radiology in which radioisotopes (compounds containing radioactive forms of atoms) are put into the body to evaluate organ function or localize bone disease such as stress fractures or tumor metastasis.

These include: Potential migration of the chip into another location Tumor development at the injection site (although this is extremely rare and no proven cases at this time) It is important to note that side effects have occurred in a very small portion of cats, and are considered very rare compared to the tens of millions of cats who have received microchips.

It is only when you get the tangles out and spend some time looking at and touching your dog's skin that you may notice small skin problems or tumors that may later grow into bigger issues.