Sentences with phrase «of tumor in the body»

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«In the long term, we want to be able to send energy to and communicate with implants all over the body, to record data from a variety of organs in many different ways, maybe even report on the conditions of tumors or cancer therapies,» Maharbiz sayIn the long term, we want to be able to send energy to and communicate with implants all over the body, to record data from a variety of organs in many different ways, maybe even report on the conditions of tumors or cancer therapies,» Maharbiz sayin many different ways, maybe even report on the conditions of tumors or cancer therapies,» Maharbiz says.

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

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.

In the spring, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved an antibody that is the first cancer therapy based on a tumor genetic biomarker instead of a location in the bodIn the spring, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved an antibody that is the first cancer therapy based on a tumor genetic biomarker instead of a location in the bodin the body.

When tumor cells are present in an environment that lacks oxygen and nutrients, they receive a signal that it is time for the cells to move to a different part 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.

When the dendritic cells are activated, they train T cells — their allies in the adaptive arm of the immune system — to attack cancer cells anywhere in the body, whether at the site of the original tumor or distant metastases.

Previous work in Weinberg's lab had shown that after a tumor forms in one part of the body, some of the cancer cells undergo EMT, Mani explains.

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

Until the close of the 19th century, a cancer patient had little choice but to watch in terror as a tumor hijacked his body.

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.

Pembrolizumab, or pembro, an immunotherapy drug that unmasks cancer cells and allows the body's own immune system to help destroy tumors, appears to be safe in treating lung cancers, according to a study by Cancer Treatment Centers of America ® (CTCA) at Western Regional Medical Center (Western) in Goodyear, Arizona.

One advantage of this method is that it only activates a certain type of immune cell, the dendritic cell or T - cell, and only in one part of the body, near the draining lymph nodes or tumor, which helps cut down on the system - wide side effects often seen with chemotherapy.

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.

Researchers at the University of Leeds have made a new synthetic anti-cancer molecule that targets two key mechanisms in the spread of malignant tumors through the body.

When the scientists inserted human colorectal cancer cells into zebrafish embryos and allowed them to grow for 4 days, the resulting tumors showed three hallmarks of human solid tumors: rapid cell division, formation of blood vessels to supply nutrients, and the ability to spread to other locations in the body.

Although changes in treatment methodology still have to be studied, Dr. Cripe believes it may be that the timing of various treatments is what matters, and that perhaps initially suppressing immunity could allow the virus to infect a large number of tumor cells before relieving the immunosuppression to allow the body's own T cells to fight off the tumor.

Conventional therapies target rapidly dividing tumor cells, but are unable to eradicate the highly chemoresistant tumor initiating cells (TICs), ultimately responsible for relapse and spreading of the tumors in other parts of the body.

Most of the mutations that drive recurrent tumors when they pop up elsewhere in the body were present in the original tumor, geneticist Elaine Mardis reported May 9 at the Biology of Genomes meeting.

These broad categories simply refer to diverse tumors that just happen to originate in certain parts of the body.

Scientists now know that what matters most in determining the behavior of a particular cancer (and its response to specific therapy) are the molecular pathways that drive malignant cell growth instead of where the tumor begins in the body.

The mouse model could also contribute to the further development of immunotherapies — a method in which the body's immune system is stimulated, so that it intensifies its fight against tumor cells.

It is well established that melanoma cells can spread through the blood to accumulate and form new tumors (metastases) in other parts of the body away from the original tumor.

The primary cause of death from breast cancer is the spread of tumor cells from the breast to other organs in the body.

«But mounting evidence confirming angiotropism and EVMM has revolutionized the knowledge of how cancer spreads through the body to the point that other scientists have confirmed the process in other solid tumor cell types such as pancreatic cancer.»

In a study presented in the featured clinical investigation article of the November issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine, they used 18F - fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) PET / CT imaging to show that the amount of cell - free tumor DNA circulating in the bloodstream correlates with tumor metabolism (linked to cancer aggressiveness), not tumor burden (amount of cancer in the bodyIn a study presented in the featured clinical investigation article of the November issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine, they used 18F - fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) PET / CT imaging to show that the amount of cell - free tumor DNA circulating in the bloodstream correlates with tumor metabolism (linked to cancer aggressiveness), not tumor burden (amount of cancer in the bodyin the featured clinical investigation article of the November issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine, they used 18F - fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) PET / CT imaging to show that the amount of cell - free tumor DNA circulating in the bloodstream correlates with tumor metabolism (linked to cancer aggressiveness), not tumor burden (amount of cancer in the bodyin the bloodstream correlates with tumor metabolism (linked to cancer aggressiveness), not tumor burden (amount of cancer in the bodyin the body).

In recent years a body of evidence has accumulated to show that chronic inflammation can play an important role in the progression of some types of tumors from a premalignant state to full - blown diseasIn recent years a body of evidence has accumulated to show that chronic inflammation can play an important role in the progression of some types of tumors from a premalignant state to full - blown diseasin the progression of some types of tumors from a premalignant state to full - blown disease.

Understanding how cancer cells are able to metastasize — migrate from the primary tumor to distant sites in the body — and developing therapies to inhibit this process are the focus of many laboratories around the country.

Researchers at Rice University and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have refined and, for the first time, run in vivo tests of a method that may allow nanotube - based probes to locate specific tumors in the body.

The Mütter Museum of medical anomalies at the venerable College of Physicians of Philadelphia is well supplied with helpful staff and airy colonnades, but what it could really use is a little stack of printed leaflets explaining to the modern visitor how he or she is supposed to feel about all this, or at least what to make of it: the uprooted genitalia and beach - ball tumors, the skeleton of the man whose muscle has turned to bone, the woman so fat that after death her body transformed itself into soap, the embryos in jars whose peeling labels break the sad but unsurprising news that not having a skull, or a brain, or a stomach, or any skin, is a state of affairs «incompatible with life.»

Since XL184 is delivered to every part of the body and not just to the tumor when administered orally, enclosing it in the PMIL could reduce toxicity by confining its action to the area of the tumor.

For most available T cell immunotherapies, T cells (which play a central role in defending the body against illness) are engineered to recognize and eliminate tumors, but their activity is not specifically controlled, leading to toxicity and unwanted side effects in patients as a result of inflammation or in some cases suboptimal response to treatment.

In their study published in The Journal of Pathology, the team shows that tumor relapse occurs when the body, in effect, mobilizes itself in favor of the tumor, causing recurrence of the disease, increasing its aggressiveness and creating metastases or tumor spreaIn their study published in The Journal of Pathology, the team shows that tumor relapse occurs when the body, in effect, mobilizes itself in favor of the tumor, causing recurrence of the disease, increasing its aggressiveness and creating metastases or tumor spreain The Journal of Pathology, the team shows that tumor relapse occurs when the body, in effect, mobilizes itself in favor of the tumor, causing recurrence of the disease, increasing its aggressiveness and creating metastases or tumor spreain effect, mobilizes itself in favor of the tumor, causing recurrence of the disease, increasing its aggressiveness and creating metastases or tumor spreain favor of the tumor, causing recurrence of the disease, increasing its aggressiveness and creating metastases or tumor spread.

Metastasis (the spread of cancer from its primary site to other places in the body) to the ovaries can result in Krukenberg tumors.

Only a few cells in a cancerous tumor are able to break away and spread to other parts of the body, but the curve along the edge of the tumor may play a large role in activating these tumor - seeding cells, according to a new University of Illinois study.

Gartner's group plans to use the technique to investigate what cellular or structural changes in mammary glands can lead to the breakdown of tissue architecture associated with tumors that metastasize, invading other parts of the body and threatening the life of the patient.

Neurocutaneous disorders are caused by abnormal development of cells in the embryonic stage, leading to tumors in various parts of the body, including the skin, organs, bones, brain and spinal cord.

Cancer researchers are just beginning to investigate the extent and significance of genetic differences among tumor cells — either cells within a discrete tumor or between a primary tumor and metastases in other parts of the body.

To make the vaccine, researchers took a sample of a patient's tumors, which in this trial were made up of B cells (white blood cells that help the body battle disease and infection).

For instance, a tumor influences the expression of genes in immune system cells that are involved in the body's response to cancer.

Siva Vanapalli, an associate professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, at Texas Tech University, recently received two grants from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) to study the movement of tumor cells throughout the body and new methods of detecting cancer cells.

Even if a tumor has not metastasized, its effects extend far beyond the part of the body in which it is found.

Even a syringe of one's own stem cells taken from one part of the body and squirted into another «may multiply, form tumors, or may leave the site you put them in and migrate somewhere else» the fda warns on its Web site.

IGRT is a common practice in both photon (traditional radiation therapy) and proton therapy to treat tumors close to sensitive structures and organs or in areas of the body prone to movement or change in shape.

In experiments with mice, the nanoparticle - based therapy not only wiped out the original targeted breast cancer tumors, but metastases in other parts of the body as welIn experiments with mice, the nanoparticle - based therapy not only wiped out the original targeted breast cancer tumors, but metastases in other parts of the body as welin other parts of the body as well.

This method of making larger superparamagnetic crystals paves the way for the development of superparamagnetic bulk materials that can be reliably controlled by moderate external magnetic forces, revolutionizing drug delivery to tumors and other sites in the body that need to be targeted precisely.

A doctor treating a patient with a potentially fatal metastatic breast tumor would be very pleased to find, after administering a round of treatment, that the primary tumor had undergone a change in character — from aggressive to static, and no longer shedding cells that can colonize distant organs of the body.

They showed that the iKnife could distinguish normal and tumor tissues from different organs, such as breast, liver, and brain, and could even identify the origin of a tumor that was a metastasis, a secondary growth seeded by a primary tumor elsewhere in the body.