Sentences with phrase «much as the tumor»

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The issue now is not whether viruses cause human tumors (as perhaps they may, on occasion) but rather how much can be learned from tumor virology about the mechanisms by which human tumors arise.

«Trying to understand as much as we can about genetic versus non-genetic determinants of tumor organization is key to our understanding of tumor propagation and to the design of new therapies.

Much of the research into tumor cell migration, however, has represented the tissue as a solid gel.

In some horses, tumors develop as small bumps under the skin or as scaly lesions that easily can be removed by a veterinarian, but in other horses the problem becomes much more serious.

Since its first recorded sighting in 1996, devil facial tumor disease (DFTD) has maintained a steady westward march in Tasmania, depleting devil populations by as much as 90 percent in some areas.

These details tell researchers about the heterogeneity of tumors, which is essential for developing appropriate research and drug protocols that can navigate all the inherent complexity of not just the anatomy and physiology being imaged but also how imaging technologies intersect to capture as much information as possible.

But it's much harder to develop therapies that restore malfunctioning genes that should be triggering cell death in abnormal cells, known as tumor - suppressor genes.

Loeb points out that much of the concern over cancer risk is that, as part of standard therapy for advanced prostate cancer, tumor growth is decreased by drugs that drastically reduce rather than increase male hormones.

Much rarer are headaches due to life - threatening conditions such as meningitis, encephalitis, cerebral aneurysms, extremely high blood pressure, and brain tumors.

«You can look at it in terms of tumor biology — our current strategy is to treat and then as long as the tumor responds to any degree, to watch for progression without paying much attention to depth of response.

This may allow surgeons to look at the perimeter of a growing tumor and use the shape to guide their assessment of which regions could be more problematic — where they need to take out more tissue around the tumor and where they may not need to take as much.»

«But the immune system can get overwhelmed when there is too much tumor, and not work as effectively as possible,» he says.

«We do a phenomenal job with surgery, peeling off as much of the tumor as we can see, and then we do standard chemotherapy, but the cancers still recur,» Memarzadeh said.

The standard treatment for glioblastomas consists of removing as much of the tumor as possible with surgery and then eliminating what is left through radiotherapy combined with chemotherapy.

«The fact that turning off Tie2 in pericytes accelerates tumor growth so much came as a real surprise to us.»

Chakravarti further notes that because GBM cells take up methionine much faster than normal glioma cells, positron emission tomography that uses methionine as a tracer (MET - PET) might help map GBM tumors more accurately, allowing more precise surgical removal and radiation - therapy planning.

But diffusion MRI suffers from magnetic field artifacts that can distort the actual location of tumors by as much as 1.2 centimeters or roughly half an inch — a significant distance when surgeons are attempting, for example, to assess whether a tumor extends beyond the prostate and into adjacent nerve bundles.

Phosphatase and tensin homolog (PTEN): Adding an extra copy of the tumor suppressor gene PTEN to mice produces lower rates of cancer, much as expected, but also increased life span.

As an active researcher, much of her work is focused on regulation of angiogenesis in pediatric solid tumors, including Wilms» tumor, neuroblastoma, and hepatoblastoma.

The current standard of care for a newly diagnosed, high - grade glioma includes surgically removing as much of the tumor as possible, followed by radiation therapy and chemotherapy.

They found that different regions of a single tumor shared as much as 93 percent of genetic mutations and as little as 67 percent.

The removed gene region thus appears to act as an important gene switch promoting cancer, and without it tumors develop much more rarely.

Neurosurgery to remove all or as much of the tumor as possible, while preserving neurological function

Although this possibility has not yet attracted as much attention as the ideas of cell replacement, personalized medicine and other more direct clinical applications, hESCs are expected to be superior to most commonly used cell - culture models of drug discovery which employ tumor - derived or immortalized cell lines or primary cell culture.

But a puzzle remains: if a drug wipes away methylation indiscriminately, that might turn on an oncogene just as much as it might restore a tumor suppressor gene.

When the researchers sequenced the samples for genetic mutations and analyzed chromosome structure, they could trace the tumors» evolutionary histories, much as evolutionary biologists trace the origins of organisms back to their common ancestors based on fossils deposited in different geologic eras.

A study done on mice that were given flaxseed supplements revealed that melanoma tumors could be reduced by as much as 60 %.

I need to get as much tumor fighting food in his body to combat the cancer.

Tumors suck up so much cholesterol, though, that LDL has been considered as «a vehicle for targeting antitumor [drugs] to cancer cells.»

According to Lewis Cantley, director of the Cancer Center at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center at Harvard Medical School, as much as 80 percent of all cancers are «driven by either mutations or environmental factors that work to enhance or mimic the effect of insulin on the incipient tumor cells,» Gary Taubes reports, vii adding:

I won't go into too much detail here, but I've had quite the health journey, having been diagnosed with Hashimoto's thyroiditis and then thyroid cancer in the recent past (my cancer is now considered «cured,» as I had my thyroid and the cancerous tumor removed).

Black raspberries and blueberries were shown to reduce breast tumor volume in rats by as much as 70 percent after being consumed for six - months.

40 grams of soy protein isolate will spike your insulin like growth factor (a known tumor grower and age accelerator) twice as much as 40 grams of dairy.

Movies have not mattered much this past week, as my wife of 18 years, the love of my life was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor.

That being said, however, there may not be much danger in your veterinarian removing just the cat tumor, as long as he takes very wide and deep margins.

Surgery to remove as much tumor as possible as well as removal of affected lymph nodes.

Skin cancer and benign tumors often look very much alike, so it is important to have any unusual growth checked by your veterinarian as soon as you find it.

And if your clients think they can't afford a spay, they should be aware that it could cost five or 10 times as much to treat mammary tumors or pyometra.

We see other kinds of tumors as well, but they are much less common — lung tumors, brain tumors, nasal tumors, liver tumors.

When tumors are too large for treatment or they have spread to distant sites, therapy is aimed at improving the quality of life of affected pets as much as possible.

This may involve taking samples of tumor tissue, it may mean removing the whole tumor, or it may be an attempt to remove as much of the tumor as possible.

How much added predisposition comes with early spay / neuter and to which breeds remains of great controversy and, of course, delaying spay leads to other issues (such as a strong predisposition to developing mammary tumors).

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The first step in treatment is surgical removal of as much of the tumor as possible.

Even though early spaying in the cat does not seem to yield as much protective effect as in the dog, you can still decrease the incidence of this tumor by up to 60 % by spaying early.

So much of dental disease, such as periodontal disease, tooth root abscesses, jaw fractures, tumors, etc., occurs below the gumline, that dental radiography is an absolute necessity to practice veterinary dentistry.

When a tumor or some other problem exists such as when the body mistakenly attacks a gland (autoimmune disease), the gland either produces too much hormone or too little.

Other disorders such as disk disease, disk herniation, spinal cord tumors, and FCE (a «stroke» in the spinal cord) can also cause symptoms similar to DM, but with a much more rapid onset.

The tumor causes the glands to release too much of each hormone such as cortisol, aldosterone, and aldosterone, sex hormones and catecholamines.

Other problems, such as failure of the microchip, hair loss, infection, swelling, and tumor formation, were reported in much lower numbers.