Sentences with phrase «secondary tumor sites»

This metastasis occurs even if there is no evidence of secondary tumor sites at the time of surgery.

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The now - mesenchymal cells can then travel to a remote site, where they eventually convert back to their epithelial state and clump together into a secondary tumor.

Similar to humans, the mice developed tumors at secondary sites including the liver, lung, peritoneum, and diaphragm.

Given that breast cancer cells traveling through the bloodstream on their way to secondary sites where breast tumors metastasize most often — lung, bone marrow, brain and liver — must first pass through the basement membrane microvasculature, Ghajar and Bissell suspected that the basement membrane could be a major component of the dormant niche in distant organs.

Again, the goal is to either further shrink the primary tumor if it wasn't completely removed surgically or to treat secondary sites.

In rare cases a tumor called fibrosarcoma may develop at the injection site, however, this has been found to develop in only specific individuals who are genetically predisposed to form these tumors secondary to any type of infection or inflammation.