Sentences with phrase «not normal breast tissue»

Plakoglobin is a component of two important structures involved in cell - to - cell adhesion, and the investigators found that suppressing its expression caused CTC clusters to fall apart, reducing their metastatic potential, and also disrupted cell - to - cell contact between breast cancer cells but not normal breast tissue.

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In some cases, a girl's breasts may grow during puberty, but perhaps that growth is asymmetrical (uneven) or the breasts are large and appear normal, but only fatty tissue develops, not glandular tissue.

The 5E5 antibody recognized multiple types of cancer cells, including leukemia, ovarian, breast, and pancreatic cancer cells, but not normal tissues.

The news wasn't all bad: When Fischbach's team put obese mice on a diet, their mammary fat tissue had fewer myofibroblasts, suggesting losing weight could make a woman's fat tissue structure more normal and lower her breast cancer risk.

Interestingly, the team found that radiologists could do better than chance in discriminating breast cancer cases from normal tissue, even when the images of abnormal breast tissue did not directly capture a cancerous lesion or when those images were taken from the contralateral breast (the breast on the other side of the body) of a woman with breast cancer.

(A) MELK expression levels are significantly higher in breast carcinoma (n = 392, red circles) than in normal breast tissues (n = 61, blue circles) in the TCGA breast cancer cohort (Cancer Genome Atlas Network, 2012).

Our bioinformatics analysis, based on multiple independent large - size cohorts shows that MELK is strongly overexpessed in BBC / TNBC, not only compared to normal breast tissues, but also compared to luminal or ER / PR + breast cancer.

If you're wondering what a cancer lump feels like, know that most of the time lumps are not cancer — in fact, normal breast tissue can feel lumpy too.

If your hormone levels are normal, it's possible that your breast tissue is simply overly sensitive to estrogen and / or not sensitive enough to testosterone.

Mammary tumor virus sequences have not been detected in normal breast tissue or other tumors.