11/19/2007 New Technology to Treat Breast Cancer Shows Promise in Early Application Physicians at the Rebecca and John Moores UCSD Cancer Center will present the initial outcomes of their use of a new device that delivers radiation therapy to
a specific tumor site at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (R...
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Testosterone treatment alone did not induce
specific tumors at other
sites, but compared with control rats, it caused a significant increase in the number of rats with malignant
tumors at any
site.
So instead of taking a shotgun approach to killing a cancer cell, we are using a targeted approach that is not necessarily
specific to an anatomical
site, but rather the
specific mutation identified in the
tumor.
KDM4A lysine demethylase induces
site -
specific copy gain and rereplication of regions amplified in
tumors.
One limitation of our study is the use of metastatic samples from various organ
sites, potentially influencing expression via differences from the organ -
specific tumor microenvironment.
These results define PGBD5 as an oncogenic mutator and provide a plausible mechanism for
site -
specific DNA rearrangements in childhood and adult solid
tumors.
The papilloma viruses are
site -
specific and proliferative DNA viruses that develop as either benign skin
tumors or mucosal
tumors in young dogs.
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.