Sentences with phrase «other tumors»

They are being tested in dozens of other tumor types as well, so the competition will only get hotter.

Your veterinarian will perform a physical exam and look for signs of other tumors.

As is true for other tumors, early detection is likely to offer the highest probability of successful treatment outcomes.

And if fetal cells protect women from breast cancer, they might also safeguard against other tumors.

They also have varying appearances and can mimic other tumors.

These signaling molecules may also play a role in tumor development in other organs, and are being evaluated in melanoma and other tumor types.

Although other tumor suppressors exist, what makes Par - 4 so special is that it is not mutated as frequently as other known suppressors, and it's «selective» in its actions in that Par - 4 will only kill cancer cells and not normal cells.

The exposure to epacadostat was lower in these patients than in patients with other tumors.

This canine - derived, tumor - specific targeting approach is the first of its kind in the veterinary field and if successful this agent may also be used to treat many other tumor types in the dog.

If your doctor finds other tumors, you may need a mastectomy to remove the entire breast.

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.

The level of NY - ESO - 1 expression in colorectal and several other tumor types, however, is very low, limiting the efficacy of treatments that target NY - ESO - 1 in patients with these cancers.

Alarmingly, and despite indisputable success achieved in the treatment of these malignancies, their incidence in westernized countries during the last 3 decades has been increasing more rapidly than that of most other tumors.

It is important to differentiate osteosarcoma from other tumor types and diseases that occur within bones, such as bacterial, viral, or fungal infections.

Because the combination destroys other tumors besides the injected one, it might eliminate metastases, or the secondary tumors that result when cancer spreads, he says.

The shots trigger the animals» immune system to eliminate not only the injected tumors, but also other tumors in their bodies.

Higher levels of serotonin among other tumor secretions can cause injury to the valves of the heart over time, leading to cardiac impairment — a condition referred to as cardiac carcinoid disease — in these patients.

However, the cancer cells of individual other tumor facets of the same patient survived the treatment and were even able to reproduce much more intensively.

«It would be great to see this in other tumor models.»

Researchers now think that irradiation sometimes kills tumor cells in a manner that exposes new antigens to T cells, priming them to target other tumor cells that carry them as well, says Wenbin Lin, a chemist at the University of Chicago in Illinois, and one of the authors of the current study.

Both strains spread through the tumors, infecting and killing the cancer stem cells while largely avoiding other tumor cells.

Searching for T cells that had infiltrated the tumors, they collected as many as 50 T cell samples from a single tumor; next, the team tested each batch of T cells against other tumor samples from the same patient.

In further studies, they plan to explore the role of autophagy in immune reactions toward other tumor cell types, to determine whether such therapies might be effective in a broad range of cancers.

These findings reinforce many things that we already know: that mutations acquire gradually with age, that most of the mutations in AML (and likely other tumors) are random background events not contributing to tumorigenesis, and that subsequent mutation and evolution can give rise to subclones that ultimately determine cancer progression and response to therapy.

Studies in animal models have shown that once the immune system responds to the foreign HLA gene, it can also begin to recognize other tumor - associated proteins that are produced only by cancerous cells and attack those cells as well.

Also, CMB305 was well tolerated, and generated a strong and broad anti-NY-ESO-1 immune response in > 50 % of the patients, including evidence of antigen spreading — the induction of an immune response against other tumor antigens not targeted by CMB305.

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A protein that appears to play a key role in the formation of lymphoma and other tumors by inhibiting a tumor - suppressing gene has been identified by a team of veterinary and human medicine researchers at the University of California, Davis.

Like other tumors, the average age of the patient suffering from dog anal sac cancer or tumors is 10 years of age or older.

«But for other tumors with specific genetic abnormality that doesn't result in overexpression of a protein, it won't make sense.»

This is an unusually large amount of drivers, not typical for many other tumor types, according the study's senior author Dr. Matthew Wilkerson, associate professor and Bioinformatics Director of The American Genome Center and the Collaborative Health Initiative Research Program at USU.

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

«Most other tumors have a mutant p53, but in these testicular cell tumors, the p53 is functioning properly, and the drugs used for testicular cancer appear to work in concert with p53's tumor suppression function to kill the cancer cells.»

The drug works really well in testicular and ovarian cancer, but not as well in other tumors,» he said.

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.

«Our results clearly demonstrate a significant, although unexpected, role for specific gut bacteria in enhancing the immune system's response to melanoma and possibly many other tumor types,» said study director Thomas Gajewski, MD, PhD, professor of medicine and pathology at the University of Chicago.

Researchers usually inject human or other tumor cells into their bodies to mimic human cancers, Fan said.

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.

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.

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.

«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.»

The study published in Cancer Cell shows that exosomes from tumor cells of breast cancer (and other tumor types such as ovarian and endometrial) are different in size and composition than those of healthy cells.

These mice were more likely to get tumors than mice lacking almost any other tumor suppressor, except the widely studied P53 gene, Hakem says.

Imaging with the new PET probes also could reveal receptors or other tumor - related markers at sites where the cancer may have spread, including bone, which is much harder to biopsy.