Sentences with phrase «normal brain tissue»

The goal is to help surgeons remove as much cancer as possible while safely leaving normal brain tissue intact.

It precisely delivers a high dose of radiation to a very focal area in the brain while avoiding normal brain tissue.

The team says the results of their proof of principle experiment suggest that such particles loaded with «death genes» might one day be given to brain cancer patients during neurosurgery to selectively kill off any remaining tumor cells without damaging normal brain tissue.

Their in vivo studies in mice have shown that neural stem cells can be genetically modified in the lab to secrete anticancer agents, like interleukin - 12, so that they will track down and kill cancer cells in both the tumor and its satellites without harming normal brain tissue.

Glioblastoma is the most lethal form of primary brain tumor and leads to death in patients by invading the brain tissue in a process that allows single cells to move through normal brain tissue, which makes complete surgical removal of the tumor impossible.

Establishing novel imaging biomarkers of treatment - associated neurotoxicity — such as ventricular enlargement, which can be tracked with any MR scanner — will be a critical step towards developing more selective therapies that are targeted to the tumor and spare normal brain tissue.»

The virus also infected full - blown glioblastoma cells but at a lower rate, and didn't infect normal brain tissues.

«We are talking about fast - growing tumors that invade normal brain tissue and are very difficult to treat,» said Orin Bloch, MD, a neurosurgeon at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and lead author of the study.

Blood may bypass normal brain tissue, and be diverted directly from the arteries to the veins.

Likewise, complete surgical resection is often impossible due to GBM's ability to infiltrate normal brain tissue.

They confirmed low levels of miR - 184 expression in human glioma tissue samples and cultured cell lines as well as an increase in the expression of SND1 compared to normal brain tissue.

However, approximately 10 to 20 percent of dogs with PDH have tumours large enough to compress the normal brain tissue and lead to neurologic disease symptoms like an uncoordinated gait, as seen in your dog.

In cats, meningiomas tend to be slower growing than their canine counterparts and are almost always well defined and have a clear demarcation between the rumor and normal brain tissue.

In contrast, canine meningiomas tend to be more locally infiltrative and invariably lack demarcation from the normal brain tissue.

Early - delayed side effects: up to 40 % of pets can have worsening of their original symptoms in the first 1 - 5 months after RT (due to irritation of the normal brain tissue surrounding the dying tumor).