Sentences with phrase «new tumors throughout»

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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.

Dangerous brain tumors hijack the brain's existing blood supply throughout their progression, by growing only within narrow potential spaces between and along the brain's thousands of small blood vessels, new research shows for the first time.