The researchers
studied tumour tissue from patients, cultivated human tumour cells and tumours in mouse models for neuroblastoma.
Not exact matches
Growing them in animals makes for more lifelike
tumours, and can produce large quantities of
tissue for
study.
In the new
study, scientists at King's College London, led by Dr Anita Grigoriadis from the Breast Cancer Now Research Unit at King's College London,
studied lymph node
tissue and primary
tumour samples from 309 breast cancer patients, who were treated between 1984 and 2002 at Guy's Hospital London.
While the cancer in dogs shares characteristics with humans, there are differences in the likelihood of the cancer metastasizing and the
tissue of the prostate.ANCHOR However, by
studying the prostate gland in dogs, Charles Huggins discovered that the growth of
tumours was dependant on the natural hormones of the body.
This is often how neurosurgeons actually identify
tumour tissue for resection, as described from the
study below and from use of the iKnife, which identifies malignant
tissue and can be combined with a form of photodynamic therapy.