Sentences with phrase «removing small tumors»
Now that the beta is over, the game will go under the knife for the last time to remove any small tumors that may have been uncovered and will then be given a clean bill of health in anticipation of its Spring 2009 release.
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«Even when an entire tumor has been removed, it is common for a small number of tumor cells to remain behind.
In some horses, tumors develop as small bumps under the skin or as scaly lesions that easily can be removed by a veterinarian, but in other horses the problem becomes much more serious.
The surgeons make a small incision in the patient's ear canal and use the endoscope to help find and remove the tumor.
Although surgery that is confined to removing just a small tumor (loco - regional treatment) is generally considered to be low risk, we have previously demonstrated that the proportion of patients who develop postoperative complications strongly increases with age and increasing numbers of other diseases or conditions that they may have.
The new «tumor in a dish» method begins by taking the cancerous tissue removed during surgery or biopsy, cutting it up into small pieces and putting them in a special collagen gel that maintains them as «organoids» that retain the three - dimensional structure of the original tumor and include supporting cells from the tumor's environment.
The researchers grafted breast or lung tumors in mice, allowed the tumors to grow to small size and removed these tumors surgically — essentially mimicking the situation in a human tumor patient in which the tumor is surgically removed as soon as possible after diagnosis.
A biopsy to confirm the diagnosis is performed by removing a small piece of tissue from the tumor for examination under a microscope.
Her surgeon told her she was a good candidate for lumpectomy because the tumor was smaller than 2 centimeters — they could remove it and preserve both her breasts.
The surgery can be «open» — meaning, the doctor will make a large cut to remove the tumor, surrounding healthy tissue, and nearby lymph nodes all at once — or «minimally invasive,» in which a surgeon can use special tools to remove the growths by making a few smaller cuts.
LaRue had a skin - sparing mastectomy, which removed the tumor and her breast tissue through a small semicircular incision near the nipple.
If a tumor is identified when it is small, it may be possible to remove the spleen if the tumor is there or to remove tumors found near the heart and prolong the dog's life.
Small fatty tumors that do not interfere with movement or organ function can be left alone but large fatty tumors should be surgically removed.
The smaller the tumor and the earlier it is removed, the easier the surgery.
Also, the decreased pain involved with laser surgery may allow the surgeon to remove small skin tumors using local anesthesia rather than having the pet undergo general anesthesia.
Commonly, intestinal tumors are located in the lower portion of the stomach, and often this area of the stomach must be removed along with part of the small intestine (partial gastrectomy).
Also during her spay surgery they removed 2 small tumors, one was a mammary tumor and the other was attached to the fat connected to her falopian tube.
If the tumor is still small, it may be removed, but part of the healthy tissue surrounding it will have to be removed.
In older times, the prolapsed gland was treated like a small tumor; it was simply removed.
If glaucoma (increased eye pressure) has resulted or if there is deep inflammation in the eye, rapid tumor growth, or vision loss, it is probably worth simply removing the eye (enucleation) though smaller growths might be amenable to laser therapy.
The small mass was a benign mixed tumor that was completely removed and not likely to come back.
If a tumor is identified when it is small it may be possible to remove the spleen if the tumor is there or even to remove tumors found near the heart and prolong the pet's life.
When the tumor is smaller (less than 3 cm) when it is removed cats can live a couple of years; if it is larger than 3 cm the prognosis for life after surgery is 4 — 12 months.
A small sample of the tumor is removed to determine the specific tumor type.
If the epulis is small and all of the tumor is removed, the prognosis is good.
Success is best when the tumor is small; large cancers are surgically removed before the treatments and radiation is used to stop further growth of any cells missed in the surgery.
This tumor has an unusual pattern of growth, therefore your veterinarian will need to remove a much larger area of skin surrounding the tumor than you expect, due to small projections or tendrils of the tumor that grow within the skin.
For intestinal cancers (small and large), depending on the type, a localized tumor is surgically removed.
Doctors will be removing one of two small (meningioma) tumors from the membrane around her brain, and we sure would be grateful for any extras prayers you could lift up for her that day.