Sentences with phrase «new tumors in body»

Malignant adrenal cancers may spread through the body by invading the adjacent blood vessels and seeding new tumors in body cavities and other organs.

Not exact matches

Tumors are notoriously difficult to study in their natural habitat — body tissues — but a new synthetic tissue environment may give cancer researchers the next - best look at tumor growth and behavior.

Researchers at the University of Leeds have made a new synthetic anti-cancer molecule that targets two key mechanisms in the spread of malignant tumors through the body.

In a new study, a team found that injecting mice with tiny magnets and cranking up the heat eliminated tumors from the animals» bodies with no apparent side effects.

It is well established that melanoma cells can spread through the blood to accumulate and form new tumors (metastases) in other parts of the body away from the original tumor.

Many tumors spread: Single cancer cells migrate with blood flow through the body before they settle in new tissue.

Only a few cells in a cancerous tumor are able to break away and spread to other parts of the body, but the curve along the edge of the tumor may play a large role in activating these tumor - seeding cells, according to a new University of Illinois study.

Metastasis is the process in which cells from a primary tumor break - off, enter the blood stream and create new tumors elsewhere in the body.

This allows cancer cells to break off from tumors, spread throughout the body (in blood or other fluid) and form new tumors at distant sites — a process called metastasis.

Siva Vanapalli, an associate professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, at Texas Tech University, recently received two grants from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) to study the movement of tumor cells throughout the body and new methods of detecting cancer cells.

Research from Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey examining difficult to treat cancer tumors through genomic profiling shows that tumors with alterations in a signaling pathway responsible for cell regulation may respond to targeted therapy regardless of where the tumor originated in the body.

What followed is an illuminating tale of how one woman's intersection with experimental research helped open a new frontier in cancer treatment — with approval of a drug that, for the first time, capitalizes on a genetic feature in a tumor rather than on the disease's location in the body.

The new iPS cells passed the standard tests for pluripotency: They formed tumors called teratomas when injected into immunocompromised mice, and they could differentiate into cells from the three main tissue types in the body, including neurons, muscle and gut epithelium.

We are leaders in the field of cancer immunotherapy and the development of tumor vaccines and new antibodies, working to activate the human body's own immune system to fight cancer.

He adds that recent new drugs on the market or in clinical trials are attempting to disable Tregs in tumors to help the body's own immune system fight cancer.

CXCR4 is a receptor that cancer cells use like antennae to feel their way from their parent tumor to distinct sites in the body where they will establish a new tumor.

The aggressive basal - type breast cancers often metastasize, seeding new tumors in distant parts of the body.

Once tumor cells strike out on their own and metastasize to new sites in the body, drugs and other therapies rarely do more than prolong a patient's life for a few years.

Metastatic disease refers to cancer that has spread through the blood or lymph system to form new tumors in other parts of the body distinct from the original site.

A story in last Friday's New York Times highlights research on «cancer stem cells»: a fraction of cells in a tumor that are especially resistant to chemotherapy and resemble the body's non-cancerous stem cells in their ability to renew themselves.

The chronically stressed mice had decreased immune function and experienced tumor development significantly earlier than the non-stressed mice.16 Other mouse studies of ovarian cancer showed that chronic stress resulted in increased cancer growth as well as increased angiogenesis, the process with which cancer forms new blood vessels to feed itself nutrients for growth and metastases.17 Chronic stress has also been shown to decrease our body's ability to mount an attack against foreign invaders, including viruses.18 As we know that several viruses can cause cancer (HPV and cervical cancer, and EBV and nasopharyngeal cancer), we can extrapolate that any decrease in immune function could increase cancer risk.

Others may experience new tumors, located in the bladder or in other areas of the body.

When they have moved (spread) to a new location in the body they are called metastatic tumors.