Sentences with phrase «precancerous cells»

While a 90 per cent success rate would be poor for chemotherapy, only a tiny fraction of precancerous cells ultimately become malignant.

We suspect that in precancerous cells many of these normally dormant origins are activated inappropriately,» notes David Shore, professor in the Department of Molecular Biology of the UNIGE.

LEEP or Loop Electrosurgical Excision Procedure — a treatment to remove precancerous cells from the cervix with an electrical current.

This protein stops potentially precancerous cells from dividing and induces suicide in those that are damaged beyond repair.

Sweeney acknowledges, for instance, that IGF - 1 could make precancerous cells grow faster and stronger.

Sweeney acknowledges that IGF - I could make precancerous cells grow faster and stronger.

But consumed correctly, it appears to kill precancerous cells in the bowel.

If precancerous cells remain untreated and develop into cervical cancer, there's a chance you'll need a hysterectomy (removal of the uterus), which would rule out any future pregnancies.

One of these compounds is known to kill cancer cells, the other makes precancerous cells susceptible to the first compound.

Without the genome's guardian on patrol, precancerous cells survive and reproduce.

But, counter-intuitively, this mass cell death might be the very thing that makes the animals so long - lived: it could be a natural mechanism their bodies use to clear precancerous cells, stopping tumors in their tracks.

According to the new theory, the telomeres are short in precancerous cells because telomerase is turned on just enough to maintain but not lengthen the telomeres.

Two types of vaccines were used for the study: one constructed with genetically engineered DNA molecules that teach immune system cells to recognize premalignant cells expressing HPV16 E7 proteins, and one that is a non-infectious, engineered virus that targets and kills precancerous cells marked by HPV16 and HPV18 E6 and E7 proteins.

«It's difficult to measure immune cell responses to therapeutic vaccines, but we believe that clinical studies could tell us more about the value and function of the vaccines if we check for the response in the lesions, where the immune system is fighting precancerous cells,» says Connie Trimble, M.D., associate professor of gynecology and obstetrics, oncology and pathology at Johns Hopkins» Kimmel Cancer Center.

He points to a Northwestern University project that aims to illuminate precancerous cells.

As evidence, he cites a small study in 2002 on the effect of vitamin C on precancerous cells living in culture dishes.

While scientists previously thought that a drug targeting TGF - ß would only be useful in advanced cancers, she discovered that the same drug may help prevent precancerous cells from turning into cancer.

For the second study, Jamie Bernard — an assistant professor of pharmacology and toxicology — tried a similar approach but used precancerous cells.

Our mouse model data are not in conflict with the epidemiological observation that a first pregnancy before age 22 greatly reduces breast cancer risk (MacMahon et al., 1970), because at this young age, the chance of having already accumulated precancerous cells is small.

The increased cancer levels in the mice that had been pregnant were not due to them having more precancerous cells at the early stages of pregnancy than the unmated mice of the same age.

Beyond its immediate miseries, acid reflux is believed to create precancerous cells that increase your esophageal cancer risk.

For example, screening for cervical and colorectal cancers can find precancerous cells, which can be treated before they become cancerous.

And a false negative result might allow precancerous cells to develop into cancer if they are not detected in a future round of Pap testing.

Several years before, I'd had cervical surgery to remove precancerous cells, resulting in scarring that caused my cervix to be tight and significantly shortened.

As a result, the drugs usually only inhibit the growth of precancerous cells, rather than killing them off.

For example, I found that the nanoscale structural alterations are present both in precancerous cells (ie, cells with higher chromatin compaction), and also in ganglion cells reflecting chromatin and axons disintegration.

Shields also says she has a short cervix due to scarring that occurred years before when she had surgery to remove precancerous cells.

IMAGINE if cancer could be kept at bay by killing off precancerous cells every few months, much as dentists scrape away plaque to prevent tooth decay.

Her work ranges from the noxious tailpipe to the precancerous cell, evaluating all the possible way stations of disease.

One of the many functions of the immune system is to recognize cancerous or precancerous cells in the body in order to prevent cancer from developing.

Another intriguing finding of the paper was that a high percentage of precancerous cells that underwent chemotherapy survived and proliferated, more so than either normal or cancerous cells.

If polyps are found in the colon, they are removed and sent to a pathologist for biopsy, an examination under a microscope that detects cancerous or precancerous cells.

However, despite their very low apoptotic rate, the early lesions of I10 mice harbored abundant numbers of cells positive for p53, Bax, and Bak (data not shown), suggesting that as in virgin mice oncogene - activated cells in parous glands are fully capable of activating p53 and its pro-apoptosis targets, but these precancerous cells nevertheless evade apoptosis.

She did have precancerous cells removed from her cervix, but when the hospital urged her to come back for follow - up care due to another abnormal Pap, she ignored it.

Also visit your dermatologist once a year for a full body scan to check for any signs of precancerous cells.

Cervical dysplasia is strongly correlated with the virus HPV, or human papillomavirus, that turns healthy cervical cells into abnormal, precancerous cells.

Chronic rises in stress hormones have been shown to accelerate the growth of precancerous cells and tumors; they also lower the body's resistance to HIV and cancer - causing viruses like human papilloma virus (the precursor to cervical cancer in women).

Rats that consumed 5 - 10 percent of their diet as freeze - dried black raspberries and strawberries showed dramatic reductions in the growth of precancerous cells and tumor progression, the researchers found.

All living creatures have precancerous cells growing all of the time; however, when the immune system is healthy, these precancerous cells are kept in check.

Colposcopy — a procedure to look more closely at the cervix to see if there are precancerous cells.

This testing can be another Pap test, an HPV test, or a colposcopy — a procedure that helps your doctor look more closely at your cervix to see if there are precancerous cells.

A colposcopy: a special exam to look more closely at your cervix to see if there are precancerous cells.