Sentences with phrase «make precancerous»

Sweeney acknowledges, for instance, that IGF - 1 could make precancerous cells grow faster and stronger.

Not exact matches

This new study demonstrated that the test can also be used to identify people with precancerous polyps — a finding that makes it potentially more useful for a screening test, since it may be able to identify cancer risk before the disease actually develops.

But, counter-intuitively, this mass cell death might be the very thing that makes the animals so long - lived: it could be a natural mechanism their bodies use to clear precancerous cells, stopping tumors in their tracks.

«They act the same way as baby oil, increasing light penetration and making skin extra-vulnerable to cancers, burns, freckles, and precancerous growths,» says Jeannette Graf, MD, a dermatologist in Great Neck, New York, and assistant professor of dermatology at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine.