Sentences with phrase «standard tumor form»
Mesothelioma is not like many other cancers in that it does not grow in a standard tumor form.
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While there have been improvements in the current standard treatments, patients with glioblastoma (GBM), the most common and aggressive form of brain tumor, still suffer from a median survival rate of only 14.6 months and 5 - year overall survival rates of less than 10 %.
The study's conclusions address a major challenge in current standards of care for prostate cancer: Without knowing a tumor's underlying biology, physicians can not reliably predict which of their patients will develop dangerous forms of the disease.
The new iPS cells passed the standard tests for pluripotency: They formed tumors called teratomas when injected into immunocompromised mice, and they could differentiate into cells from the three main tissue types in the body, including neurons, muscle and gut epithelium.
«In a setting with so much diversity, those cells could multiply to form new tumors, which would be resistant to standard treatments.»