Sentences with phrase «likely other tumors»

These findings reinforce many things that we already know: that mutations acquire gradually with age, that most of the mutations in AML (and likely other tumors) are random background events not contributing to tumorigenesis, and that subsequent mutation and evolution can give rise to subclones that ultimately determine cancer progression and response to therapy.

Not exact matches

Triple - negative tumors are aggressive and more likely to metastasize than other breast cancers, and there is no effective treatment.

Cells suspended in a stiff matrix were more likely to work their way through the matrix to other side of a serum gradient, analogous to how metastasizing cancer cells break free from their tumors.

Triple - negative tumors are also more likely to spread and recur than other types of breast cancers.

Instead, researchers told the European Breast Cancer Conference that their findings suggest that extending screening programs to older women results in a large proportion of women being over-treated, and at risk from the harmful effects of such treatment, because these women were more likely to die from other causes than from any tumors detected in the early stages of growth.

«This study supports the idea that we could test ovarian cancer tumors and say they're more likely to respond to one or the other drugs,» Diamond says.

Philip Laipis of the University of Florida, who has also observed tumors in AAV vector - treated mice, agrees, at least for studies using a similarly high dose of AAV to target liver cells, which are more likely than other cell types to take up the AAV vector.

If tumor cells are not present in the sentinel node, the primary tumor most likely has not spread to lymph nodes or other organs.

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have discovered why breast cancer patients with dense breasts are more likely than others to develop aggressive tumors that spread.

For example, HPV - inactive tumors were 17 times more likely to contain TP53 gene mutations — which are common in other cancer types — than HPV - active cervical cancers.

Tumors with high levels of E-cadherin tend to be tightly tethered to nearby cells and less likely to break free and travel to other sites.

So if we assay a panel of tumors and see that half the tumors have a mutation in gene A, and the other half have a mutation in gene B, with no overlap, it's quite likely that the mutations play similar functional roles.

These two histones thus have a key role of epigenetic silencing of tumor suppressor genes in breast cancer (and likely other cancers), suggesting that they may represent new therapeutic targets.

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.

Dogs that are affected with internal HSA often have an irregular heartbeat, and are likely to have intermittent episodes when their tumor will bleed, causing their gums and other mucous membranes to turn pale.

If a parent has bone or joint disease, allergic skin disease, bad teeth and gums, ear infections, eye problems, separation anxiety, destructive behavior, tender feet (cutting toe nails), oily musty skin odor, coprophagy, liver, heart or kidney disease, bladder stones, asthma, fatty tumors, poor physique or coordination, umbilical and other hernias or another disease, then the puppy is at least ten times as likely to inherit these problems than a puppy from healthier parents.

For example, a grade 1 tumor is the least likely to spread to other organs, with a better survival rate.

From experience, veterinarians know that some tumors are more likely to spread than others.

As is true for other tumors, early detection is likely to offer the highest probability of successful treatment outcomes.

Since we are likely to get another Golden (although no other dog will replace our beloved, Teddy) I was wondering if you could answer these questions for my future reference: 1) Was it possible that she had something other than a brain tumor given the negative blood work and x-rays and, if so, were there other diagnostic studies other than an MRI that we should have looked into?

If she suspects bladder stones, tumors or other abnormalities, she'll likely want X-rays or ultrasound images of your dog's abdomen.

Tissue reaction / allergy / foreign body: he could have a splinter or something that got walled off Insect bite that caused a granuloma Lipoma: if it is movable and small and soft (but not necessarily 100 %) it could be a fatty benign tumor Other neoplasia (I could go on and on but Dexter younger, so it is less likely) MCT Etc. ect... the tests need to be done to determine the cause

Grade III (high - grade) tumors are the most invasive and aggressive and the most likely to spread to other parts of the body.