Sentences with phrase «kind of tumor because»

So if researchers think that an individual drug for, say, chronic myeloid leukemia might work against a different kind of tumor because the two illnesses share similar biological underpinnings, they have to conduct a whole new clinical trial and go through the approval process all over again for the second condition.

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Kaalvoet - Kind, I felt nauseated just reading of someone telling a mother her child has a brain tumor because of the mother's sin.

Iron Gall ink is so named because it is traditionally made from oak galls, a kind of arboreal tumor.

(Mackenzie notes that it shouldn't be a problem for her strategy, because she plans to use the same kind of cells as bone marrow transplants, which haven't caused tumors.)

«About five percent of people have some kind of cartilage tumor in their bones, and in most cases it's because the growth - plate cartilage cells weren't fully replaced by bone tissue,» Alman said.

«We kind of had this wild idea that because these tumor cells are just pouring [out microvesicles], maybe we can actually see it in the blood,» Breakefield says.

Harold Varmus: Well the simplistic way to think about that is and I'm not sure this is the way it will be worked out, is to be able to take just a few cells from those early lesions and examine them genetically or for other kinds of marks on the DNA that would predict whether or not this is some - this is a lesion which might or an early stage growth that might never be able to progress, but it is also possible that every early tumor of that kind has some probability of expanding and invading and growing to become a medical problem, so getting that right will obviously be crucial because it's very difficult to say when you've diagnosed something that is an early stage tumor that it won't progress.