Sentences with phrase «seen as tumor»

and How can we avoid being seen as the tumor?

Not exact matches

(There are some exceptions to the rule, as certain tumor viruses demonstrate — see the sad, heroic tale of Nobel laureate Howard Martin Temin, who had the effrontery to challenge said dogma.)

Have I seen what I could call a bona fide miracle (such as a leg grow or a tumor disappear..

However, the impact of the two methylation - regulating enzymes was still seen at 10 to 15 months, when scientists found decreased expression of hundreds of genes — many of which are key tumor suppressor genes such as BMP3, SFRP2 and GATA4 — in the smoke - exposed cells and a five - or - more-fold increase in the signaling of the KRAS oncogene that is known to be mutated in smoking - related lung cancers.

Wong and his lab want to see if edelfosine could be incorporated into future clinical research focused on other tumor sites such as lung, ovarian and pancreatic cancers.

Looking to the future, the Penn - Wistar team sees promise in targeting PAKs as an additional tool to target melanoma tumors.

Teratomas are weird tumors which can contain hair, bones and, as seen here, teeth.

Instead, Schlom says, «what we're seeing is increases in patient survival, as opposed to tumor shrinkage.»

Tumor biopsy is often impossible for early cancer diagnosis as the developing tumor is too small to see by the current imaging tTumor biopsy is often impossible for early cancer diagnosis as the developing tumor is too small to see by the current imaging ttumor is too small to see by the current imaging tools.

A fast - growing tumor (solid red) displaces nerve fibers (colored strands) in a false - color image of a 54 - year - old woman's brain, as seen from above.

After years of speculation about the promise of cancer vaccines as a way to use the immune system against tumors, the United States will soon see its first cancer vaccine hit the market.

«Additional studies are needed to see if these nanoparticles could also effectively deliver other antitumor genes for the treatment of brain tumors as well as systemic cancers.»

In Cohort B — those who received pembrolizumab as first - line therapy — 12 of 52 patients, or 23 percent, saw tumors shrink by more than 30 percent, while the disease was stabilized in nine of them, or 17 percent.

They found that in all nine cases, their data matched the outcomes seen in patients, as measured by clinical protein biomarkers found in the bloodstream, which are used by doctors to determine whether a drug is killing the tumor cells.

Beyond the fundamental science of finding and understanding these cancer - spreading cells, he also sees engineered tumor environments as having therapeutic applications in personalized medicine.

«We do a phenomenal job with surgery, peeling off as much of the tumor as we can see, and then we do standard chemotherapy, but the cancers still recur,» Memarzadeh said.

Set up as a mock - trial, the session was designed to examine the increasingly common dilemma of whether evidence such as MRI images, which can be used to see damage in the brain such as lesions or tumors, should be entered into court cases.

«Most MMPs are made by cells that surround and support a tumor, not by the tumor itself, as we see in pancreatic cancer,» Dr. Radisky says.

To see if texaphyrins gravitate to tumors just as their porphyrin cousins do, Sessler used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to scan cancerous mice before and after a texaphyrin injection.

That will include validating some of the new predicted tumor suppressors and oncogenes as well as «making some deletions and amplifications and seeing if they have the properties we think they do,» said Elledge.

However, no one was included in Halloway's analysis who had a diagnosis or symptoms of dementia, or even mild cognitive impairment; a history of brain surgery; or brain abnormalities such as tumors, as seen on MRIs.

Gregory Foltz of Swedish Medical Center in Seattle saw that BEX1 was turned off in the brains of his tumor patients, and using the Brain Atlas, he confirmed that the gene is usually active in healthy brains, as reported in Cancer Research in 2006.

When antibodies and other methods were used to dramatically deplete the supply of Tregs in mice, the researchers saw a dramatic jump in the numbers of activated dendritic cells and CD8 + T cells in pancreatic tumor tissue, as well as a slowing of tumor growth.

They envision using this technique to create mice with tumors carrying the same genetic profile as a patient, then testing different drugs on them to see which have the best effect.

Finding cancer early can improve a patient's chances for survival, but small tumors can be difficult to see with scanning techniques such as magnetic resonance...

The loss of let - 7, the authors argue, could be seen as one crucial step in this process of tumor progression.

IHC - P mouse tumor tissue (from lung) with human cell line injected, some muscle tissue attached as well sees high background for human cellswith priamry Ab as well as isotype ctrl, but also for muscle (does not contain any EGF) Ab: 1 ug /...

Kidney cancer patients may see long - lasting tumor shrinkage with immunotherapy, which uses the immune system as a weapon to fight cancer.

The sum of metastatic tumor volume was first calculated from four lobes of lungs per animal (see Materials and methods), and the lung metastasis per group is presented as tumor volume (cubic millimeters).

The mRNA expression profile of DDX3 and p21waf1 / cip1 in 45 normal - tumor paired HCC samples was determined by quantitative real time - PCR (see Materials and Methods) and is shown as fold expression relative to its corresponding normal tissue.

[25] Seeing that in metastatic patients the only available tumor is often core biopsies rather than whole tissue blocks, we next attempted to determine whether the degree of heterogeneity varies between primary and metastatic sites, using the TMA cores as surrogates for core biopsy specimens.

Although progress toward harnessing the immune system to attack tumors has been «enormous,» he said, his lab and many others are seeing in more and more studies — in lab mice as well as patients — that «immuno - oncology» will not be as simple as stimulating T cells to attack tumors.

«We want to see if these tumors might be selectively sensitive to therapies that target the pathways that are disrupted as a result of these fusion genes,» Baker said.

«As a contrast agent, they make tumors easier to see on MRI and other scans.

Left: tumors as seen with a traditional white light; right: the same tumors more visible with a dye and blue light.

As the cancer field saw successes with immunotherapies that could boost patients» immune responses to cancer, Swanton turned to studying how heterogeneity within a tumor influences its interaction with the immune system.

Although the differing effects of hypoxia reported here are in conflict with previously published data, where no contrasting effect was seen (18 — 20), our data was produced using 13 primary breast cancer samples, as well as established cell lines, and the opposing effects in hormone receptor — positive and negative tumors, measured using multiple in vitro and in vivo CSC assays, were consistent in all cases.

As you can see, all of these causes, including both tumors and their rather harsh treatment options, fall under a general heading of testicular trauma, preventing the testicles from functioning properly.

one doctor's take on cancer: his thesis sees cancer as the body's defense mechanism against toxins by sequestering them in tumors

So that means, from the time that first cell gets mutated, it takes between two and a hundred years before it shows up as a little tumor that we can see.

See: Interaction of estrogenic chemicals and phytoestrogens with estrogen receptor β Soy isoflavone genistein has about 4 % of 17β - estradiol's affinity for estrogen receptor α, responsible for estrogen's feminizing effects, and 87 % of its affinity for ERβ, which acts as a tumor suppressor.

The exceptions are when a cancer has been classified as «watch and wait», in which case it doesn't hurt to feed someone some berries and see what happens, or if a surgery has already been scheduled to remove a tumor, in which case you might as well feed the patient some flaxseed in the meantime.

If you're consistent about following this advice, your back pain will hopefully lessen, but see your doctor if these nighttime tweaks don't lead to improvement, since chronic back pain could be linked to more serious conditions such as scoliosis, fractures, or spinal tumors.

If you've seen the 1990 box office comedy Kindergarten Cop, then you likely recall Arnold Schwartzenegger as a teacher snapping at a precocious 5 - year - old boy who suggests that his headache might be a tumor.

2 Mast cell tumors are the second most common tumor type and are often seen as lumps in the skin.

Other cancers which may be associated with vaccine damage include Lymphoma (cancer of the lymph nodes), Leukemia (cancer which affects white blood cell production), Osteosarcoma (bone cancer), and Mast Cell Tumors (affects mast cells which respond to inflammation / allergens, usually seen as malignant skin tuTumors (affects mast cells which respond to inflammation / allergens, usually seen as malignant skin tumorstumors).

Any fatty tumor seen or felt on your dog's skin should be examined by your veterinarian as early as possible to make sure it's not malignant.

On the other hand, I've seen dogs and cats that were barely middle - aged with problems such as arthritis, skin tumors, dental disease and cataracts — again, all commonly associated with «normal» aging.

Pilomatricomas (also known as pilomatrixoma, or the necrotizing and calcifying epithelioma of Malherbe) are hair matrical tumors (developing in the root of the hair), seen in dogs.

If you see a growth on your dog, it will be vitally important to determine if such a growth is a harmless skin tag, or if it is a tumor or other growth that is signaling a more serious problem, such as cancer.