Sentences with phrase «multiple types of tumors»

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An international team of researchers has identified eight additional types of cancer linked to excess weight and obesity: stomach, liver, gall bladder, pancreas, ovary, meningioma (a type of brain tumor), thyroid cancer and the blood cancer multiple myeloma.

To illuminate the process, the Yale team sequenced normal, primary, and metastatic tumor tissue from multiple individuals, including subjects with a range of cancer types.

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.

Researchers from Uppsala University, Sweden, and the Broad Institute, USA, have identified both similarities and differences between a single tumor type in multiple dogs breeds; a finding they believe parallels the situation in the cancer of human patients.

BETs have been fast - tracked into clinical trials and have shown impressive slowing of tumor growth in multiple cancer types.

These cells are cancerous yet have properties of stem cells: self - renewal and the ability to differentiate into multiple cell types that occurs in tumors.

Recent studies have described a subpopulation of cancer cells within tumors termed «cancer stem cells» (CSCs), which have stem - like properties such as self - renewal and the ability to differentiate into multiple cancer cell types [1 — 7].

Multiple myeloma cells are abnormal plasma cells (a type of white blood cell) that build up in the bone marrow and form tumors in many bones of the body.

Recent studies have described a subpopulation of cancer stem cells (CSC) within tumors, which have stem - like properties such as self - renewal and the ability to differentiate into multiple cell types.

My studies of cancer genomes have led to characterization of multiple pediatric and adult tumor types, to development of methods that identify and characterize changes in genomic heterogeneity, to defining acquired resistance mechanisms to targeted therapies and to designing novel, personalized vaccines for individual patients.

A combination of the indoleamine 2,3 - dioxygenase 1 (IDO1) inhibitor epacadostat with the anti — programmed death ligand 1 (PD - L1) antibody durvalumab was well tolerated in a phase I trial of patients with multiple solid tumor types.

By assessing the incidence of a particular mutation or the frequency at which certain genes / pathways are altered across multiple patients (of the same tumor type), it should be possible to identify key mutations.

In addition, because ZVex product candidates have the potential to carry the genetic material of different tumor antigens, as well as immunostimulatory molecules, we can design them to target multiple types of cancers.

The list included multiple types of benign tumors, a fatty tumor called a lipoma, and rare metastatic tumors.

A cat may have multiple tumors, sometimes of different types, within different mammary glands.

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

When we see older female dogs arriving in to rescue who haven't been spayed until later in life, after multiple litters of puppies and / or from a puppy mill type situation, there is a much greater likelihood that they may have mammary (or other) tumors compared to those who were fixed at a young age.