Shah and his team are currently developing similar animal models of brain
metastasis from lung cancers and from melanoma.
Not exact matches
Loss of either GSTO1 or RYR1, the researchers report, decreased the number of
cancer stem cells in the primary tumor, blocked
metastasis of
cancer cells
from the primary tumor to the
lungs, decreased the duration of chemotherapy required to induce remission and increased the duration of time after chemotherapy was stopped that the mice remained tumor - free.
When
cancer cells
from eg breast or
lung tumours invade the bones through
metastasis, the bone tissue is degraded.
Cancer that comes
from another part of the body to the
lungs is called pulmonary
metastasis.
The 1833 (bone
metastasis), 4175 (
lung metastasis), and BrM2a (brain
metastasis) sublines were derived
from the parental cell line MDA - MB - 231 (19) and were gifts
from J. Massague (Memorial Sloan - Kettering
Cancer Center).
The limitations of the chemo beads Although cisplatin beads are often effective at preventing or slowing the
cancer from coming back, they do not prevent spreading (
metastasis), e.g. to the
lungs.
Spread of
cancer (
metastasis)
from the mammary glands, liver,
lung or prostate to the bones is relatively common.