Sentences with phrase «of tumor tissue»

This may involve taking samples of tumor tissue, it may mean removing the whole tumor, or it may be an attempt to remove as much of the tumor as possible.

• Availability of tumor tissue is mandatory for study eligibility.

Your veterinarian must remove a section of the tumor tissue from your dog shortly after death.

PHOTO: Harbour LaboratoryUsing very small amounts of tumor tissue collected by a needle biopsy, doctors can conduct gene expression profile testing to determine the likelihood that an ocular melanoma tumor will spread beyond the eye.

«How can we overcome the limitations of tumor tissue biopsy and plasma samples for detecting genetic alterations, and obtain comprehensive tumor EGFR profiling in real - time?»

Patient - derived xenographs involve the implantation of tumor tissue into an immunodeficient mouse which becomes an avatar to help identify which drug or drug combinations are most likely to be effective for an individual cancer patient.

The new study overcame this limitation by selectively dissecting cancer cells from pieces of tumor tissue.

Achieving this goal has been hampered by the technical difficulty of isolating pure cancer cells out of the tumor tissue that contains both tumor cells as well as normal cells.

«As there are no published guidelines for the use of ctDNA for EGFR mutation analysis in the absence of tumor tissue, these results may help address this current unmet need.»

When they infused the patients with a glucose tagged with stable heavy atoms immediately prior to surgical removal of tumor tissue, they found that PC was selectively activated — in other words, PC expression may play an important role in the development of lung cancer.

Importantly, without any prior knowledge from the analysis of tumor tissue, 76 % of «actionable» mutations (genetic changes that can be matched to an approved targeted therapy or one being tested in clinical trials) detected in tissue were also detected in blood.

Purpose: The development of the UNC Immuno - Oncology Patient Centered Translational Research (IMPACT) Biorepository involves the collection of tumor tissue and blood, as well as data (e.g., demographic, clinical, questionnaire) from patients attending Oncology Clinics at UNC Hospital and undergoing immune therapy through participation in a Merck IT trial at UNC.

Or we could use a short course of focused radiation therapy, which causes inflammation of tumor tissue and increased immune vigilance.

In vivo studies reveal an increased stiffness and different architecture of tumor tissue when compared to its healthy counterparts.

With the funding, the organization hopes to implement: clinical trials to test new innovative therapies to help save dogs and alleviate dog suffering now, prevention studies related to genetics and canine genome, incorporating lifetime risk, funding of a tumor tissue bank, and establishment of an endowment to guarantee continued research efforts.

Accurate diagnosis of these tumors requires microscopic examination of tumor tissue.

Small snippets of tumor tissue are called biopsies.

«Wider sampling of tumor tissues may guide drug choice, improve outcomes: Genomic variation in tumor tissues can be a barrier to precision medicine.»

As new oncogenic driver genes are identified, the testing process becomes less efficient because more genes need to be analyzed in limited amounts of tumor tissue.

Cancer cells were clearly interacting with macrophages in nearly every sample of tumor tissue, while these interactions only appeared occasionally in healthy tissue.

Its whats called a no - scalpel surgery that combines MRI (an imaging machine) mapping followed by powerful sound - wave «shaving» of tumor tissue.

Your veterinarian will send samples of the tumor tissue to a specialized laboratory, where a veterinary pathologist will perform a histopathology examination.

These include complete removal of a tumor, partial removal of a tumor, or exploration of a particular area to obtain a sample of tumor tissue and evaluate the extent of normal tissue involvement.