Sentences with phrase «new tumor colonies»

If they are not completely destroyed they are capable of continuous differentiation, they able to self renew and create new tumor colonies.

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In the new study, the researchers cultured mouse skin - cancer colonies on various 2 - D and 3 - D environments of different shapes and patterns to see if the tumor shape contributes to activation of cancer stem cells, and to see where in the tumor the stem cells appeared.

The prognosis for metastatic cancer (also called stage IV cancer) is generally poor, so a technique that could detect these circulating tumor cells before they have a chance to form new colonies of tumors at distant sites could greatly increase a patient's survival odds.

Then these founder cells express more proteins that keep them alive, allow them to divide and divide, bring them blood and nutrients, and help them grow into new metastatic tumor colonies.

«Tumor growth, invasion, and metastasis are multistep processes» that includes not just cell proliferation, but invasion through the surrounding tissue, and «migration through basement membranes» to reach the bloodstream before the tumor can establish «new proliferating colonies» of cancer cTumor growth, invasion, and metastasis are multistep processes» that includes not just cell proliferation, but invasion through the surrounding tissue, and «migration through basement membranes» to reach the bloodstream before the tumor can establish «new proliferating colonies» of cancer ctumor can establish «new proliferating colonies» of cancer cells.