Sentences with phrase «of other tumor»

Swanton's lab has since followed the work with comprehensive spatial and temporal genetic analyses of other tumor types, including colorectal cancer, showing the ways that faulty DNA replication promotes chromosomal instability in cancer.

Even though this is a relatively rare cancer, we know HPV is important in a number of other tumors, including those of the head and neck.

The HER2 gene is overactive in more than one - fifth of all breast cancers and operates in a host of other tumors that may prove vulnerable to oleic acid.

Not exact matches

Others have found that bacteria within the tumors themselves can influence the effectiveness of traditional chemotherapy as well.

The institute's Tumor Neoantigen Selection Alliance, which includes Bhardwaj's team and others from the University of Pennsylvania and to Stanford Medicine, is focusing on discovering «cancer markers» and then making predictions on neoantigens to combat them.

For some companies meetings are a tumor of unproductiveness waiting to be excised, while for others they're the lifeblood of the company's communication in chaotic times.

When Jedd Wolchok, a cancer doctor and immunologist leading a Yervoy trial at Memorial Sloan Kettering, examined a melanoma patient's scan 12 weeks after he'd received his course of treatment, the results were utterly disappointing — just like those of any other metastatic patient in the final throes of the disease: The tumors had gotten bigger, and there were more of them.

The Kamens claim the main thing that distinguishes their foundation from other brain tumor foundations is their focus on pediatric brain cancer specifically, as well as their close ties with pharmaceutical and biotech companies working in the fields of immunotherapy and target gene therapy.

While it has shown promise for some types of tumors and become standard of care for others, researchers are just beginning to explore how different immunotherapy technologies can be applied to brain cancer.

Also, eating in a comparable manner to our precursors has been demonstrated on numerous occasions to offer stunning medical advantages, including counteractive action of most maladies of human progress, for example, tumor, coronary illness, Alzheimers, and other interminable conditions that are generally created by horrible eating routine and way of life.

Two other reports in the same issue of Cancer Causes and Control suggest that children born to mothers who eat at least one hot dog per week during pregnancy have double the normal risk of developing brain tumors, as do children whose fathers ate hot dogs before conception.

While study results indicated that combining capsaicin with the chemicals «might promote cancer cell survival,» the report clearly stated that the control group of mice treated only with capsaicin ``... did not induce any skin tumors...» In addition, the study repeatedly cited other research studies in which the anti-cancer properties of capsaicin were solidly demonstrated.

Let's assume you don't have a strong family history of any particular cancer, and so, aren't trying to hone in on avoiding one tumor over any other.

Though the surgery to remove the tumor was successful, post-operation tests revealed the cancer had broken into blood vessels — posing a threat that it could return to her liver or other areas of the body.

If there are no other tumors present, treatment includes surgery to remove the nipple and areola, followed by a series of radiation treatments on the whole breast.

Breast lump removal is performed to prevent a cancerous tumor from spreading to other parts of your body.

The study indicated that even a small period of breastfeeding reduces the risk of these stubborn tumors, which are more common in younger women and generally have a poorer prognosis than other subtypes of breast cancer.

Many of the causes of galactorrhea, like hormonal imbalances, tumors, or other medical conditions, are beyond our control.

I am unsure why you disagree with using data / results from studying other animals that are known to be similar to humans — I see studies all the time that correlate results in other species (eg, to demonstrate the carcinogenic properties of something, they give it to rats and watch for tumors).

Scientists have uncovered how tumor cells in aggressive uterine cancer can switch disguises and spread so quickly to other parts of the body.

The 2016 People's Choice Award went to Emmanuelle Alaluf of the Free University of Brussels, for her video using ballet and other dance styles to show how tumor cells evade the immune system.

The focus of those hopes is the liquid biopsy: a test that could detect and analyze a solid tumor from biomarkers in the bloodstream or other easily sampled body fluids, such as saliva.

Breast cancer tumors can fuse with blood vessel cells, allowing clumps of cancer cells to break away from the main tumor and ride the bloodstream to other locations in the body, suggests preliminary research.

Unfortunately, the high background of normal proteins, along with the presence of circulating phosphatases and other degradation enzymes, consistently stump researchers searching for these rare tumor biomarkers.

As researchers learn more about genetic profile of various cancers, other work is charging ahead to deliver personalized vaccines targeted to a patient's own tumor cells

«This research represents a big step forward in understanding why some tumors are more aggressive than others and being able to predict rationally which neoantigens will be the most effective at stimulating an immune response,» said Dr. Balachandran, a member of the David M. Rubenstein Center for Pancreatic Cancer Research at MSK, and corresponding author of the companion study in Nature.

While the latter has a reputation for being hard to isolate, she explains that even degraded RNA generally contains enough intact sequence to analyze — provided investigators can detect the scarce tumor signals against the immense background of other RNA molecules in a sample.

That includes going after notoriously deadly metastatic tumors — ones that have spread from other parts of the body.

Once they have consumed all the oxygen and nutrients in the original tumor site, the cancer cells travel to other parts of the body (metastasize) to find more nourishment.

It's this «immunosuppressive» microenvironment that gives the remaining tumor cells license to metastasize and flourish in other parts of the body.

The immune system depends on molecules called T cell receptors on the surface of T cells to recognize and respond to foreign antigens from virus - infected cells, tumors and other threats.

In some places, up to 95 percent of devils (Sarcophilus harrisii) have succumbed to facial tumors, spread when devils bite each other...

Avastin, from Genentech, and Erbitux, from ImClone Systems, are the first drugs to reduce tumor growth from colon cancer that has spread to other parts of the body.

In the Cell study, Dr. Massagué, with Fellow Manuel Valiente, PhD, and other team members, found that in mouse models of breast and lung cancer — two tumor types that often spread to the brain — many cancer cells that enter the brain are killed by astrocytes.

Although there have been great advances made in the treatment of leukemias and other cancers, little is known about how Glioblastomas are formed and how these tumors infiltrate the brain tissue.

«We are looking for novel ways of preventing cancer cells of the primary tumor from spreading to other parts of the body.

The tumor has threadlike tendrils that extend into other parts of the brain making it difficult to remove it all.

The activity of four transcription factors — proteins that regulate the expression of other genes — appears to distinguish the small proportion of glioblastoma cells responsible for the aggressiveness and treatment resistance of the deadly brain tumor.

Reducing STK17A also interfered with tumor cells» ability to move around and invade other areas of the brain.

Looking to target a key pathway in order to interfere with the processes that lead to tumor spread, a research team led by Irwin H. Gelman, Ph.D., of Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) has identified a new suppressor of cancer metastasis that may point the way toward development of more effective treatments for prostate cancers and other malignant solid tumors.

«There are certainly challenges to overcome for clinical application of this kind of immunotherapy, but the newly published data are an important milestone in immunotherapy targeting solid tumors that have eluded other treatments.»

We found that the inflammation unfortunately gets hijacked by tumor cells that are able to grow faster and penetrate deeper because the blood vessels in the brain are more permeable than in any other part of the body.

Tumors that originate in other organs of the body and spread to the brain are known as metastatic brain tTumors that originate in other organs of the body and spread to the brain are known as metastatic brain tumorstumors.

«As a cancer immunotherapist, what gets me really excited is when you take an established tumor and you make it disappear,» said Crystal Mackall, MD, professor of pediatrics and of medicine and the study's other senior author.

Still, how melanoma cells join into tumors — whether by individual cells coming together or small or large clusters of cells doing so — follows the same pattern as breast tissue cancer cells: Cables are extended to reel in other cells or clusters.

In past imaging studies, my colleagues and I noticed that cervical tumors that took up a lot of glucose prior to radiation treatment tended to be more resistant to radiation therapy than other tumors.

The Johns Hopkins group and others have shown that so - called liquid biopsies of blood - borne tumor DNA can reveal, for example, whether a patient's cancer should respond to a specific drug.

Dr. Massagué is particularly interested in the ability of tumor cells to hug blood vessels, as he suspects this behavior may be essential for the survival of metastatic cancer cells not only in the brain but also in other parts of the body where metastatic tumor growth can occur.

«We believe that small subsets of metastatic tumor cells have the ability to adopt the mechanisms used by immune cells to exit the blood vessels into the lungs, the bone marrow, the brain, and other organs.

«This finding,» Villanueva said «opens the door to developing new biomarkers and new therapeutic strategies exploiting these characteristics of exosomes in breast tumors, and other tumors such as ovarian and endometrial cancer among others.»