Sentences with phrase «nearby healthy»

We focus on providing treatments that effectively target tumors while minimizing radiation exposure to nearby healthy tissues.

These technologies enable your care team to safely direct more radiation to cancer cells and less to nearby healthy tissues and in less time than many older technologies.

While past attempts to treat melanoma failed to meet expectations, an international team of researchers are hopeful that a compound they tested on both mice and on human cells in a petri dish takes a positive step toward creating a drug that can kill melanoma cancer cells without harming nearby healthy cells.

IMRT is highly precise and can «shape» the radiation beam more closely to the cancerous tissue, thus sparing nearby healthy tissue.

In a study published in Carcinogenesis, researchers found that grape seed extract killed squamous cell carcinoma cells, while not harming nearby healthy cells.

The investigators found that fluorocoxib A exhibited focal accumulation in neovascular lesions with minimal accumulation in nearby healthy tissue.

Sedation is often used to help patients stay in the exact position needed so radiation hits the tumor and not nearby healthy tissue.

When injected directly into the shoulder tumor, the altered bacterium killed the cancer cells, sparing nearby healthy ones.

In cancer, Hedgehog influences nearby healthy cells in an intricate sequence of signals, or «signalling pathway», instructing them to secrete nutrients to feed the cancer cells and create the perfect environment for them to grow and spread.

Using ion beams allows medical professionals to calculate exactly where ions need to stop; with precise aiming, they can kill only the tumor cells and spare the vast majority of nearby healthy cells.

9/24/2008 Study Shows Radiation Device May Customize Therapy, Enable Some to Avoid More Lengthy Treatment A study of the first approximately 100 patients who have received partial breast irradiation with a small, whisk - like, expandable device inserted inside the breast has shown that after one year, the device is effective at sparing nearby healthy tissu... More...

Optogenetic methods would offer key advantages over DBS by enabling selective activation of diseased circuits without modifying nearby healthy nerves.

Because radiation therapy can also damage nearby healthy cells, many people experience side effects like fatigue, hair loss, nausea, and more.

A similar study published earlier in the journal Carcinogenesis found that in both cell lines and mouse models, grape seed extract killed head and neck squamous cell carcinoma cells, without harming nearby healthy cells.

Proton therapy delivers high radiation doses directly to the brain tumor site, with no damage to nearby healthy tissue.

«Both the immune system and nearby healthy cells send signals instructing damaged and unhealthy cells to undergo apoptosis, which is like programmed «cell suicide».

I'm glad you found me so that I could find you — it'll be cool to know a nearby healthy living blogger!

They also stop once they hit the target rather than continuing through the body, allowing them to deposit higher doses of radiation at the selected site while minimizing damage to nearby healthy tissue and the short - and long - term side effects that can result.