Sentences with phrase «metastatic small cell»

One, in which Dr. Weiss was the senior author, highlighted the extended survival of metastatic small cell lung cancer (SCLC) patients who received statins.

The abstract title was: Attempt to Validate Drug Repositioning for Metastatic Small Cell Lung Cancer (SCLC) Therapy Identifies Statins Associated with Survival Benefit.?

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«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.

Among lung cancer patients; suicide SMR was higher in males (SMR = 8.8), Asians (SMR = 13.7), widowed patients (SMR = 11.6), older patients (70 - 75 years; SMR = 12), patients with undifferentiated tumors (SMR 8.6) or small cell lung carcinoma (SCLC) histology (SMR = 11.2), patients presenting with metastatic disease (SMR = 13.9) and in patients who refused to receive surgical treatment (SMR = 13).

The mice appeared after surgery to be apparently «tumor - free»; yet, metastatic cells had already seeded from the small tumors.

A chip developed by mechanical engineers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) can trap and identify metastatic cancer cells in a small amount of blood drawn from a cancer patient.

Metastatic colonization is a highly inefficient process that only a small subset of disseminated tumor cells accomplish (Nguyen et al., 2009).

Development of a screen to identify selective small molecules active against patient - derived metastatic and chemoresistant breast cancer cells.

«He's been sick,» I said, because this had been going on for a year, and though nobody gets better from metastatic small - cell lung cancer, he'd been holding his own for months and months.