Sentences with phrase «other cancer sites»

The virus is engineered to grow in cancer cells, destroy these tumors, and then spread to other cancer sites.

Not exact matches

BioNTech, which has around 700 employees at sites in Germany — more than any other unlisted biotech firm in Europe — is also working on other cancer - fighting technologies, including antibodies, cell therapies and small molecules.

Metastasis involves clumps of cancer cells becoming detached and moving through the blood stream or the lymphatic system to other areas, where they become attached to a new site and continue growing.

The bill would extend the current statute of limitations law, to allow a three year window between when New Yorkers find that their water has been contaminated with toxins linked to cancer and other disease, and a Superfund site has been declared, and when they can file a lawsuit.

Wong and his lab want to see if edelfosine could be incorporated into future clinical research focused on other tumor sites such as lung, ovarian and pancreatic cancers.

Metastasis is the spread of cancer from its primary site to other places in the body (e.g., brain, liver).

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.

Most of these deaths were because the cancer had spread to other organ sites.

«Urologists tend to prefer to forgo adjuvant radiation therapy, because they fear the side effects, and radiation oncologists tend to prefer offering adjuvant radiation therapy because they fear the risk of metastasis [cancer spreading to other sites in the body],» Showalter said.

Some studies suggest there's a connection between shortened telomeres and some types of cancer, but not other types of cancer (see a comprehensive listing of papers on the Telome Health site).

A new digital reconstruction of the chromosomes of the ancestor of all placental mammals reveals that these tightly packed structures of DNA and proteins have become scrambled over time — a finding that may help pinpoint possible problem sites in our genomes that underlie cancer and other disease.

The trial, which will be led by Maria R. Baer, MD, professor of medicine at UM SOM and director of hematologic malignancies at UMGCCC, will enroll patients at the Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center and several other sites.

So PSA is great tool after prostatectomy in terms of predicting recurrence if the level starts to climb up again, indicating that the cancer has spread to other sites in the body.

Like pancreatic cancer, cancer of the ovaries is notorious for being discovered at a relatively late stage — after it has spread to other sites in the body.

Cancer can become deadly after surgery to remove a primary tumor because of the possibility of recurrence of the cancer at the surgery site and other parts of theCancer can become deadly after surgery to remove a primary tumor because of the possibility of recurrence of the cancer at the surgery site and other parts of thecancer at the surgery site and other parts of the body.

For each of these cancer sites, the researchers calculated important regional and county differences in advanced stage of diagnosis, which takes into account the growth and size of the tumor and whether it has spread to the lymph nodes or other organs.

Metastasis, or cancer spread by the formation of tumors at new sites, is generally what makes cancers deadly because surgery and other treatments are unlikely to find and destroy every cancer cell.

Fully understanding this process may present new target sites for drugs and may lead to better treatments for neurological diseases, cancers and other disorders.

If the researchers find this unique profile is linked to cancer development, they believe they could potentially use the microbiota in other sites such as the vagina or colon as a screening tool.

The process, which located a genetic site for the most common form of prostate cancer, has potential for developing precision therapy for other cancers, such as breast, brain and colorectal, say researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Ccancer, has potential for developing precision therapy for other cancers, such as breast, brain and colorectal, say researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer CCancer Center.

The team chose to compare breast tissue from healthy individuals with tumor samples taken from breast cancer patients — including both primary tumors that had not spread from the breast to other body sites, and highly aggressive, metastatic tumors.

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

This allows cancer cells to break off from tumors, spread throughout the body (in blood or other fluid) and form new tumors at distant sites — a process called metastasis.

The idea is that the drug, being within the nano - hydrogels, is transported directly to cancer cells where it can be released without damaging other parts of the body, because hydrogels offer the possibility of dosing a myriad of active substances on the site desired and can be administered as dry or swollen hydrogels by different routes: oral, nasal, buccal, rectal, transdermal, vaginal, ocular and parental.

«Most cancers kill their victims by metastasis, wherein cancerous cells move from the primary site to other places in the body.

The cell changes, known as an epithelial to mesenchymal transition, or EMT, are normal and helpful during wound healing, but problematic when cancer cells spread from the primary tumor site to other sites in the body.

One drug attacks cancer cells; the other inhibits cancer cell formation and the growth of blood vessels at tumor sites.

Forty - thousand people die every year of breast cancer because the disease has spread to other sites in the body.

While chemotherapy prior to surgery can eradicate TNBC in approximately 30 percent of patients, in other patients the cancer behaves in a manner resistant to chemotherapy and often spreads or metastasizes to distant sites in the body, at which point there is no proven cure.

Oral cancer includes ICD - 10 C00 - C06, C09 - C10 and C12 - C14 (which include the lip, tongue, mouth, oropharynx, piriform sinus, hypopharynx and other and ill - defined sites of the lip, oral cavity and pharynx).

The spread of cancer cells from the initial site of occurrence (primary site) to other secondary tissues is called metastasis, and contributes to poor or limited response of cancer cells to treatments, which results in death.

These cancer cells tend to be slow growing, and so the cancer does not spread to other sites in the body as quickly.

Of those that had the high - risk signature, cancer spread to the lungs in 55 %, in spite of chemotherapy treatment, whereas only 10 % of the others showed cancer migration to the lungs — and even then, the lungs were not the principal or most aggressive site, the team reports 28 July in Nature.

TCGA is still worth it, he says, but «the return on the investment [for this cancer] is less than for other tumor sites.»

Metastasis is a life - threatening condition in which cancer cells break away from the site where they formed to other areas of the body.

This is contradictory to the common concept that cancer cells undergo a series of mutations in the course of tumor growth to acquire the ability to leave the primary site of the tumor and start migrating to other parts of the body.

Thoracic Oncology — Lung cancer, malignant mesothelioma, thymoma and thymic carcinoma, small cell cancer in other body sites, chest sarcomas, pulmonary carcinoid tumors, other rare thoracic cancers

Metastasis, the process by which cancer cells disseminate from their primary site to other parts of the body, leads to the death of most cancer patients.

The South Orange Avenue site will house teams of health experts including cancer surgeons, radiation oncologists, specialized nurses, patient navigators, social workers, dieticians, pharmacists and other support staff, as well as researchers.

Well, the cervical cancer work, of course, and what we found about cancers at these other sites — we participated in studies that showed the etiologic heterogeneity of vulvar and head and neck cancers.

The Richmond site plans call for a 2 - million - square - foot facility at the 120 - acre Richmond Field Station that will house more than 800 scientists doing research in bioscience, cancer, bioenergy and other research.

Because they can be programmed to travel the body and selectively target cancer and other sites of disease, nanometer - scale vehicles called nanocarriers can deliver higher concentrations of drugs to bombard specific areas...

Kiran Turaga, MD, MPH, is a surgical oncologist with a special interest in the treatment of advanced malignancies, including metastatic cancers (cancers that have spread beyond their original site to other parts of the body).

One of the major parameters was the safety of these agents in the respiratory airways and lung parenchyma, since several of these agents are known to cause adverse effects.23 The main adverse effects observed were cough, transient fever and transient decrease in the respiratory functions after the aerosol administration.8, 19, 20 Moreover; it has been observed that excessive deposition of these agents in one site of the respiratory system can induce non-specific side effects in the form of pulmonary edema as observed with many other drugs.16 These side effects were milder when a premedication with bronchodilators and inhaled corticosteroids were administered.8, 19, 20 Until now no long term trial (> 9 months) has been performed since all patients included in previous studies had stage IV non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

Mucosal melanoma is a rare disease, accounting for only 0.03 % of new cancer diagnoses, and it is distinct from melanomas that develop at other sites in the body.

In addition to the risk of second cancers decades later, radiation to growing bones and organs could impede normal development, and radiation to the brain, a common site of pediatric cancers, often resulted in impairments to learning and other cognitive brain functions.

Melanoma is more likely than other skin cancers to spread beyond the initial tumor site to other organs, but all the patients had localized disease.

Cancer can often spread to the liver from other sites such as the breast or lung.

The work, led by researchers at the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and other TCGA sites, not only revamps traditional ideas of how cancers are diagnosed and treated, but could also have a profound impact on the future landscape of drug development.

The researchers also could not assess how many cancers developed from the site of the initial suspicious mammographic finding and how many were missed cancers from a different location, including the other breast.