Sentences with phrase «multiple tumor sites»

A fair number of patients may be poor candidates for amputation, due to complicating factors such as severe degenerative joint disease, significant obesity, and multiple tumor sites, or because of owner reluctance for this radical procedure.

Not exact matches

«Most cancer patients are actually at risk of having their tumor spread to multiple sites,» Dr. Massagué notes.

But genetic similarities between metastasized and original tumors suggest that multiple cells move together to remote sites.

Comparing the metastasized tumors with the original breast tumors, the researchers were surprised to learn that multiple, slightly genetically different cells from the original site had broken away together and established the new tumors.

Though vestibular schwannomas affecting both sides are the hallmark of neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2), a genetic disorder causing tumors to grow at multiple sites throughout a person's life, vestibular schwannomas may also occur sporadically, and on one side only.

After first verifying that stem cells injected to the brain would travel to multiple metastatic sites and not to tumor - free areas in their model, the team injected stem cells loaded with oHSV into the carotid artery of metastasis - bearing mice..

The Ludwig Center at the University of Chicago --- under the direction of Ralph Weichselbaum, MD, the Daniel K. Ludwig Professor and Chair of the Department of Radiation and Cellular Oncology, and Geoffrey Greene, PhD, the Daniel K. Ludwig Professor in the Ben May Cancer Research Institute at the University of Chicago — will focus on metastasis, the process by which cancer cells migrate from a primary tumor to multiple distant sites.

Sometimes these tumors occur at multiple sites within the same animal.

The behavior of a few mammary adenoma tumor types is difficult to predict, since some are borderline malignancy and others occur at multiple sites.

This method of treatment is a good option when the cancer has spread to multiple sites in your pet's body and the tumors can not be removed surgically.

This can be difficult because there may be multiple tumors present, the primary tumor site may prove challenging to determine, and there is great risk of severe hemorrhage.