Sentences with phrase «small tumors suggests»

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COLD SPRING HARBOR, N.Y. — When breast cancer spreads, it moves in gangs of ready - to - rumble tumor cells, a small genetic study suggests.

A multicenter team of researchers reports that a full genomic analysis of tumor samples from a small number of people who died of pancreatic cancer suggests that chemical changes to DNA that do not affect the DNA sequence itself yet control how it operates confer survival advantages on subsets of pancreatic cancer cells.

However, about 10 percent of them are common across multiple cancers, suggesting that a relatively small number of therapies targeting these core dependencies might each hold promise for combatting several tumors.

Together, these results suggested that EMT contributes to the establishment of a small cell subpopulation in malignant tumors; this population is then capable of driving the regeneration of the tumor, even when the bulk tumor cell mass is destroyed by therapeutic regimens.

When they blocked IKK2 activity in the mice with lung cancer, the mice had smaller tumors and lived longer, suggesting that the enzyme is necessary for NF - KB to stimulate tumor growth.

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.

Because of small sample size, the changes in tumor - initiating cell number were not significant (P > 0.05), but these data are supportive of the in vitro findings and suggest that hypoxia may have a positive effect on the tumor - initiating cell population in ER - α — positive breast cancers and a negative effect in ER - α — negative tumors.

Preliminary evidence from the small clinical trial, led by William Gillanders, MD, also suggests that the vaccine primed the patients» immune systems to attack tumor cells and helped slow the cancer's progression.

This early onset suggested to Al that the number of predisposing events in these pediatric tumors must be quite small.

THURSDAY, May 3, 2018 (HealthDay News)-- Much of the debate over when to start having mammograms has focused on lives saved, but new research suggests that early screening might also translate into smaller tumors and less aggressive breast cancer treatments.