Sentences with phrase «small cancers»

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.

For the new study, described in the October 23rd issue of Nature Communications, scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston collected tissue samples containing normal cells, ovarian cancers, metastases that had spread elsewhere, and small cancers found in the fallopian tubes, which included single cell layers of cancer called «p53 signatures» and serous tubal intraepithelial carcinoma, or STIC lesions.

But as fewer and fewer women were diagnosed with large breast tumors, pre-op chemo began to be used in patients with smaller cancers, too, in the hope that it would extend survival.

Transplanting small cancers into healthy mice immediately triggers inflammation.

A rise in ultrasound screening which can pick up very small cancers is probably one reason diagnoses are on the rise, says Dr. Yim, but larger cancers are being detected as well.

«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.

So when a venture capitalist called last fall asking her to lead a small cancer startup, she jumped at the opportunity to focus on a single drug — with no bureaucracy or politics.

Blue 1: According to CSPI: «One (unpublished) animal test suggested a small cancer risk, and a test - tube study indicated the dye might affect neurons.

The researchers stained the small cancers to highlight the cells containing mistakes in the p53 gene, which have long been linked to the onset of many cancer types.

In the race to develop an Ebola vaccine, a small cancer therapy company, NewLink Genetics, has been in the shadows of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), a big pharma company with lots of experience and far deeper resources.

A new magnetic resonance imaging procedure can spot breast cancer very early in mice, finding the smallest cancers ever detected by MRI.

For those patients with localized disease and small cancers with no lymph node metastases and no extension beyond the capsule of the pancreas, complete surgical resection can yield 5 - year survival rates of 18 % to 24 %.

The technique could also be applied after chemotherapy, the authors suggest, in cases where the drugs had eliminated most the smaller cancer, leaving only a few larger tumors behind.

But the small cancer risk associated with grilling meat isn't so great that you need to forgo hamburgers, hot dogs, and steaks altogether.

A Belizean American Oncologist Dr. Ellsworth Grant operates a small cancer clinic in Dangriga as a public service for poor Belizeans, and no one is turned away.