For pets whose cancer has
not spread to other organs, long - term survival is possible.
It's in the lymph nodes but has
not spread to other organs.
Investigators say the diagnostic technique has the potential to help reassure thousands of breast cancer patients that their cancers have
not spread to other organs, and could help them avoid the risks and pain currently involved in direct inspections of lymph nodes for the presence of cancerous cells.
Herceptin has proved to be effective in prolonging the lives of the 12 percent of women with breast cancer whose malignancy hasn't spread to other organs, and whose cancer is HER2 - positive.
Not exact matches
The disease originates in a lymphoid
organ (lymph node, spleen, or bone marrow) before
spreading through the blood
to infiltrate
not only
other lymphoid
organs but also
other tissues.
If tumor cells are
not present in the sentinel node, the primary tumor most likely has
not spread to lymph nodes or
other organs.
Evidence isn't available showing whether the juice fasting Jobs reportedly tried accelerated the
spread of cancer cells in his pancreas, and possibly
other organs, but Abrams notes that he rarely recommends juicing
to the cancer patients he counsels.
Uterine cancer can
spread rapidly
to other organs of the body such as the liver, lungs and even the skin and it is
not treatable once it reaches this point.
Grade 1 describes a mass that is cancerous but usually localized, and
not very likely
to be metastatic or metastasize (i.e.,
spread to other organs).
Survival is affected by the growth rate of the tumor, the exact location of the tumor within the bladder, and whether the tumor has
spread to other organs or
not.
I've seen softball sized mammary tumors that have been slowing getting larger and larger over months before the client decides
to have it checked, and often by that time, the tumor has
spread to other organs and there isn't much I can do
to help save the pet.
Testicular cancer is rare in both dogs and cats, but if detected early, neutering is usually curative, since most forms of testicular cancer tend
not to spread to other organs.
If the cancer hasn't yet
spread to other organs, then surgical removal of tumors may be an effective treatment for the cancer.
In the case of malignant tumors, like adinocarcinomas, surgical operation is very tough, laborious, and is usually
not effective as the cellular division is rapid, non specific and may
spread to other organs such as the liver, intestines, lungs and surrounding abdominal and thoracic lymph nodes.
While that is a small sample size, the results were promising: While vaccinated rabbits weren't totally immune
to syphilis, they were less likely
to have widespread infections that
spread to other organ systems, had fewer and smaller lesions, and had stronger immune responses.