Sentences with phrase «of normal tissue around»

When a focal cancerous mass is removed, the surgeon tries to also remove a small amount of normal tissue around the entire mass of abnormal tissue, in order to achieve what are called «clean surgical margins.»

This is especially true because malignant tumors, like TCC, need to be removed with a «margin» of normal tissue around the tumor.

Not exact matches

For instance, his team found that around 2000 genes are expressed at levels higher than those of normal human tissues because of the duplications.

Current TKIs inhibit the normal EGFR as well as the mutant EGFR, causing acne - like skin rashes and paronychia — an inflammation of the folds of tissue around finger and toe nails — both of which can be very troublesome for patients.»

We have developed a sequencing based approach to show similar in human tissues, finding around a third of cells in normal sun exposed facial skin carry cancer driver gene mutations.