Sentences with word «surgically»

According to Itzhak Nir, MD, at the UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center, surgically removing the tumors is the only way to cure pancreas cancer.

When the now - famous neurological patient Henry Molaison had his brain's hippocampus surgically sectioned to treat seizures in 1953, science's understanding of memory inadvertently received perhaps its biggest boost ever.

Darrel made the decision to have electrodes surgically implanted over his spinal cord in 2016 to test out a treatment known as epidural stimulation in the hopes of improving some of the side effects.

However, from outside a patient's body, surgeons can detect only the tracer, so they must probe surgically under skin and other tissues to find dyed nodes.

In an experiment with a «split - brain» patient (whose brain hemispheres were surgically disconnected), Gazzaniga presented the word «walk» only to the right hemisphere.

Moffitt researchers want to develop a fast, cost - effective blood test that can accurately differentiate low - risk IPMNs that can be monitored from high - risk IPMNs that need to be surgically removed by studying microRNAs (miRNAs), a class of small molecules that regulate key genes involved in the development and progression of cancer.

Her group's proposed strategy is to surgically remove the problematic blood vessels and replace the damaged RPE cells with new RPE cells derived from a patient's own cells.

When the battery dies, the entire unit must be surgically removed.

A doctor then surgically removes the eggs and fertilises them in the lab.

Money advised the Reimers to allow doctors to surgically construct female genitalia from David's remaining tissues and to raise him as a girl, unaware of what had transpired.

And the Roger pen, like many other hearing technologies, is also compatible with cochlear implants, which are electronic devices that are surgically implanted into the ear, where they stimulate the auditory nerve and facilitate hearing.

For the first time ever, thin electrical wires were surgically implanted into the frontal lobes of the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease to determine if using a brain pacemaker could improve cognitive, behavioral, and functional abilities in patients with this form of dementia.

The patients» tumors had been removed surgically, but were likely to regrow.

The New EPOC study, published in The Lancet Oncology and funded by Cancer Research UK, evaluated whether the drug cetuximab and chemotherapy together worked better than chemotherapy alone as a treatment in addition to surgery for people with bowel cancer that had spread to the liver but could be surgically removed.

Four weeks following SABR, radiation oncologists, surgical oncologists and medical oncologists made a multidisciplinary decision as to whether each patient's tumor could then be surgically removed.

To determine whether Langerhans cells replenish by dividing in the skin or by recruiting replacements from the bloodstream, pathologist Miriam Merad of Stanford University and colleagues surgically joined two mice so that they shared a blood supply.

A total of seven patients went on to have primary tumors surgically removed, and another patient was treated with peptide receptor radionuclide therapy.

In the current study, researchers have identified individuals in Sweden who had their thymus surgically removed during the 1997 - 2009 period in connection with an operation for congenital heart diseases before they were five years old.

«This broad implication is in contrast to a more traditional vaccine - based approach, which requires a specialist to surgically remove tumor samples from a patient's body then create a personalized vaccine approach for one specific patient.»

Researchers led by neuroscientist Rita Valentino of The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania mimicked an obstructed bladder in a group of male rats by surgically narrowing the outlets from the organ.

Eleven remain cancer - free up to 26 months later, including two whose tumors reappeared, then shrank or were surgically removed, Sahin says.

Researchers surgically redirect nerves that would normally control the arm into unused chest muscle, where nerve signals are interpreted by electrodes that guide the robotic limb.

Software updates could be beamed directly to medical implants without the need to remove them surgically.

UCLA researchers have found that doctors can use a specific antibiotic in addition to surgically draining an abscess to give people a better chance of recovery.

However, few studies have looked at the outcomes of surgically treated athletes with lumbar disk degeneration.

D: Elysium has a strong transhumanism theme, using technology to augment the human body, such as the exoskeleton surgically attached to Matt Damon's character.

In May 2016, the approval of eribulin was expanded to treatment of unresectable liposarcoma, a type of cancer that develops in fat tissue, that can not be surgically removed and that has already formed metastases.

The gel, created by Michael Goldberg of the Dana - Farber Cancer Institute in Massachusetts and his colleagues, is placed in the cavity left when a tumour is surgically removed.

Software updates could potentially be beamed directly to medical implants without the need to remove them surgically.

The researchers grafted breast or lung tumors in mice, allowed the tumors to grow to small size and removed these tumors surgically — essentially mimicking the situation in a human tumor patient in which the tumor is surgically removed as soon as possible after diagnosis.

«Transcatheter and surgically implantable tissue valves are life saving devices in patients with aortic valve stenosis.

The current standard of care, called an autograft, involves surgically removing a less important nerve, like the one running down the back of the calf, and grafting it into the damaged area.

Engineers are also working to miniaturize bioelectronic devices, lowering the risk for patients when the devices are surgically implanted.

The multicentre trial included 153 patients with surgically - treatable malignant pleural mesothelioma, who were first treated with three chemotherapy cycles of cisplatin and pemetrexed, followed by surgical removal of affected lung tissue, with the goal of complete removal of the cancerous areas of lung.

«For the first time, we were able to demonstrate, in surgically resected metastases, that treatment with bevacizumab in combination with chemotherapy before metastasectomy also changes the clinical significance of the growth factors as potential biomarkers,» explains Stefan Stremitzer, one of the lead investigators from MedUni Vienna's Department of Surgery.

Ideally, the electrodes will pinpoint the neural defect triggering his seizures so that the defect can be surgically removed.

After a woman's eggs have been fertilised in the lab, an embryo is surgically inserted into the womb, but can often fail to implant in the uterine lining.

Unfortunately, the drug is susceptible to breakdown by enzymes in the saliva and gut, so it is administered by a pump surgically inserted into the abdominal wall, making it an invasive and expensive treatment.

Open wounds may need to be surgically irrigated and débrided (cleaned, including removal of unhealthy or dead tissue).

A new report finds that extremely obese people who have a band surgically strapped around their stomachs to restrict food intake not only lose weight but also suffer less from arthritic knee pain.

«Removing the tumor surgically currently is the only treatment proven effective.

I believe that we will be more aggressive in treating these patients and possibly intervening surgically much sooner, thereby optimizing their neurological outcome.»

• Diagnostic laparoscopy for all surgically fit patients with suspected advanced - stage ovarian cancer.

Publications around the world proclaimed the imminence of those familiar science - fiction staples, surgically implanted devices that electronically monitor and manipulate our minds.

Ahamed Idris, a professor of emergency medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, is testing the Raydiance laser system's ability to surgically remove dead tissue from burn victims.

Using tags surgically implanted into thousands of juvenile salmon, UBC researchers have discovered that many fish die within the first few days of migration from their birthplace to the ocean.

Oregon State University scientists have developed a nanomedicine platform for cancer that can help doctors know which tissue to cut out as well as kill any malignant cells that can't be surgically removed.

Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA's Spytechs From Communism to Al - Qaeda tells the stories of real - life James Bonds who discovered bugged birds, fired cigarette - size.22 - caliber guns, surgically fit cats with listening devices, wore fake bad teeth, and concealed instructions inside gutted, freeze - dried rats.

«Surgically minimizing the number of cancer cells improves patient outcomes.»

The ability to assemble a scaffold in the body instead of having to surgically implant it would be a significant advance.»