Sentences with phrase «revealing smaller cancers»

«We showed with this technique that we can detect very tiny tumors of just a few hundred cells,» Lu said, adding that the study pushed imaging boundaries, revealing smaller cancers than can be detected with current clinical imaging modalities.

These days, more and more women are getting scans of their heads, necks, and chests to diagnose other health problems, and those highly detailed images are revealing small cancers in the thyroid that would have otherwise gone unnoticed.

Not exact matches

In a study that included children and young adults with relapsed or refractory cancer, incorporation of integrative clinical genomic sequencing data into clinical management was feasible, revealed potentially actionable findings in nearly half of the patients, and was associated with change in treatment and family genetics counseling for a small proportion of patients, according to a study in the September 1 issue of JAMA.

A recent report revealed how just a small dose of Viagra is enough to significantly reduce the risk of colorectal cancer.

«The new knowledge of the genomic changes in ovarian cancer has revealed that the molecular catalysts of this disease are not limited to small changes affecting individual genes,» said NCI Director Harold E. Varmus, M.D. «Also important are large structural changes that occur in these cancer genomes.