Sentences with phrase «secondary tumours»
"Secondary tumors" refer to cancerous growths that have spread or metastasized from the original or primary tumor to other parts of the body. Full definition
Batimastat does not work this way: instead, it is designed to keep cancers in check by preventing malignant cells breaking away and forming secondary tumours elsewhere in the body.
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Professor Geoff Pilkington, study co-author and Head of the Brain Tumour Research Centre, said: «Although this work is still at an early stage, we have demonstrated key elements that are associated with tumour cell binding to blood vessels and this may provide a target for future drug development to prevent the development of secondary tumours in the brain.
By measuring levels of a modified protein, they could identify those who went on to develop secondary tumours within two years, with more than 90 per cent accuracy.
She says that secondary tumours become hypoxic when they are as little as a millimetre across, so these would be in the firing line too.
Steven Curley, associate professor of surgery at the University of Texas Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, has tested the gel on 15 people and is optimistic that it will provide a more effective treatment for liver cancer, including secondary tumours that have spread from other parts of the body.
Such secondary tumours are formed when individual cells break away from the main tumour and travel through the bloodstream to distant areas of the body.
Scientists from King's College London, funded by Breast Cancer Now, believe they have found a way to identify lymph - node positive breast cancer patients who are most likely to develop incurable secondary tumours (metastases) and those who are less at risk.
Sadly, 24 of the patients passed away, but all were suffering serious levels of the disease, some with secondary tumours and metastasis.
Patients have poor prognoses, especially if secondary tumours are found.
Metastasis is the process by which cancer cells spread from one organ to another, forming secondary tumours.
The neutrophil nets have a downside, however: they may trap any cancerous cells circulating in the bloodstream, helping them spread into nearby tissues and seeding the growth of secondary tumours.
The discovery could help with future development of novel treatments to prevent metastasis and secondary tumours.
Once these secondary tumours form, it is often too late to save a patient.
Part of the research is aimed at developing a new prognostic «biomarker» — proteins present in the cancer that identify TNBC patients at high risk of metastasis (development of secondary tumours).
However some do have recurrences (or secondary tumours) and melanoma can then be very serious.