Sentences with phrase «of actual tumors»

Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC) and NewYork - Presbyterian researchers have created patient - specific bladder cancer organoids that mimic many of the characteristics of actual tumors.

Not exact matches

From customized 3 - D printed prosthetics and hip replacements, to 3 - D printed bones, skin and personalized replicas of tumors (for use in cancer treatment), the industry is a place where novel technology and actual use cases have intercepted to create real innovation.

«In upcoming decades, an increasing proportion of breast cancer patients will be elderly and, therefore, the additional costs of treating over-diagnosed tumors could result in a tremendous increase in health expenditure, while no actual health benefits are being obtained.

Another is that the transplanted bits of tumor act nothing like cancers in actual human brains, Fine and colleagues reported in 2006: Real - life glioblastomas grow and spread and resist treatment because they contain what are called tumor stem cells, but tumor stem cells don't grow well in the lab, so they don't get transplanted into those mouse brains.

I've run certain clinical trials but mostly at this point partner with some of my clinical colleagues to test the hypotheses generated in the lab in the clinic, in actual patients, and then actually try to analyze tumors from those patients to see whether the patterns that we identified in the laboratory in fact hold true in patients.

In tests on 8 patients based on collaborations with NYU and Cornell University medical centers, the CSHL testing method yielded assessments of tumors that more closely matched the verdict of post-surgical pathological analysis (which reveal actual pathology) than the corresponding pre-surgical predictive biopsies, according to first author Joan Alexander, Ph.D..

But diffusion MRI suffers from magnetic field artifacts that can distort the actual location of tumors by as much as 1.2 centimeters or roughly half an inch — a significant distance when surgeons are attempting, for example, to assess whether a tumor extends beyond the prostate and into adjacent nerve bundles.

The aggressiveness of a tumor is determined partly by the properties of the actual cancer cells, but also to a surprisingly large degree by the surrounding envi...

The actual cell of origin is different in each type of tumor, and does not have to be atumor stem cell.

Twentty - five percent of the patients had actual tumor shrinkage.

It's a light way of skirting the actual issues of those who physically can't watch tv due to chronic migraines or brain tumors.

The actual defect in most cases is a benign pituitary (brain) tumor that secretes excessive amounts of adrenal stimulating hormone (ACTH), sending the adrenals into high gear.

Definitive diagnosis relies upon microscopic examination of stained sections of actual pieces of tumor (histopathology).

The tumors of this type of disease often grow inward, and though a lump may be visible, the actual tumor may be quite larger.

These are also actual benign tumors that probably arose from areas of hyperplasia.

Some tumors carry genetic mutations and the actual tumor sample is submitted to the laboratory to identify the mutation and the type of tumor.

However, histopathology (the microscopic examination of specially prepared and stained tissue sections made from actual pieces of the tumor) is needed for an accurate diagnosis.

The actual underlying cause of mast cell tumors is unknown.

Your vet may stick a needle into the breast tissue and withdraw some of the tumor cells, or he may do a more invasive biopsy, involving actual surgery to remove the lump for pathological analysis.