Sentences with phrase «primary colon tumors»

In a paper published July 15 in The International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology and Physics, they used the RSI to determine the radiation sensitivity of 704 metastatic and 1362 primary colon tumors.

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Increasing expression of a chemical cytokine called LIGHT in mice with colon cancer activated the immune system's natural cancer - killing T - cells and caused primary tumors and metastatic tumors in the liver to shrink.

Analyzing the poly - G profiles of primary and metastatic colon cancer samples from 22 patients revealed that how the primary and metastatic tumors related to each other was different for each patient.

There is really no reliable method for recapitulating the metastatic progression from a primary tumor in the colon to the liver,» says Omer Yilmaz, an MIT assistant professor of biology, a member of MIT's Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, and the lead senior author of the study, which appears in the May 1 issue of Nature Biotechnology.

In these circumstances, cells from primary tumors in breast, colon, prostate, or other organs invade lung tissue via the bloodstream.

Using human colon cancer cells and primary human fibroblasts isolated from tumors and adjacent normal tissues, Alexandros Glentis and colleagues at the Institut Curie addressed the question of whether the cancer cells or the CAF cells were responsible for the breakdown of the basement membrane that leads to cancer progression.