Sentences with phrase «though were tumors»

In essence, what researchers though were tumors that cloned themselves, they've found that the cancer is actually evolving.

Not exact matches

... What we found is that even though you've found the mutation in the tumor, there's no drug to treat it.»

Though not because he is able to kiss a man with tumors.

Though the surgery to remove the tumor was successful, post-operation tests revealed the cancer had broken into blood vessels — posing a threat that it could return to her liver or other areas of the body.

He might be responding to a reduced milk supply, or, though this is rare, to a breast tumor.

Though clinical studies show that technology is better at finding potential tumors, and less likely to result in false alarms, there is not yet long - term research to show whether it saves lives or otherwise improves outcomes.

But though a toothy tumor might not be at the top of your list of desired accessories, this unusual brooch is surprisingly popular and uplifting.

Even though this is a relatively rare cancer, we know HPV is important in a number of other tumors, including those of the head and neck.

A tissue slice, a tumor biopsy, or a sample of a bacterial culture yields a sequence representing the average of all of the cells within it, even though researchers know there can be tremendous variation between those cells.

Runx2 has been linked to bone metastasis in several solid tumors, though researchers did not analyze the solid tumors for expression of bone - related genes.

The arithmetic is complex, but the consensus is that, to pose a health threat, cancers have to replicate at least 200 to 300 times, even though a clinically relevant tumor contains «only» a million million cells, which could be achieved by «only» 40 or so divisions if the originating cell had all the necessary mutations from the outset.

1 in 5: And even though you're a lot less likely to die of breast cancer these days, a New England Journal of Medicine article contends that we're pulling the trigger too early on treatment: For every one case of a small tumor caught early that would have been a health threat, about five essentially harmless tumors also receive the same treatment.

Though vestibular schwannomas affecting both sides are the hallmark of neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2), a genetic disorder causing tumors to grow at multiple sites throughout a person's life, vestibular schwannomas may also occur sporadically, and on one side only.

Their significance wasn't clear, though, given that they only account for 12 to 15 percent of a tumor's blood vessels.

The transplanted tumors maintain the genetic errors that caused the original cancer, even though they are growing in mice.

«Even though Foxo1 is a tumor suppressor gene, paradoxically its activity is associated with lymphomas,» said Kurosaki.

Some of the patients who received Xalkori in those early trials in 2008 are still doing well, though over time a patient's tumor does become resistant to the drug.

PFOA exposure increases the risk of certain tumors in rodents, though it's unclear whether it raises the risk of cancer in humans.

Historically, medulloblastoma has been treated as a single disease even though researchers at St. Jude and elsewhere showed that patient outcomes vary widely based on their tumor subtype.

For a majority of patients diagnosed with aggressive, high - grade tumors with metastases, the five - year survival rate is about 16 percent, though chemotherapy has been associated with an improvement in survival, and new targeted agents are being tested.

Though viral infection is thought to be one of the most common causes of smell loss, trauma to the nose, neurodegenerative diseases and tumors can also trigger it.

The growing evidence that cancer and metabolism are connected, emerging from a number of laboratories around the world over the past 10 years, has further fueled these hopes, though scientists are still working to identify what tumors might be most responsive and which drugs most useful.

Coukos, who is currently leading an ovarian cancer clinical trial sponsored by CRI's Clinical Accelerator, sought to understand why PD - 1 / PD - L1 immunotherapies are often ineffective for these patients, even though ovarian tumors are often infiltrated by «killer» T cells that recognize tumor - specific neoantigens and express high levels of PD - 1.

Though surgeons have some tools to guide them, the only way to know for certain is for a pathologist to examine the margins, or edges, of the excised tumor following surgery.

For example, Manning's models have been confined to two dimensions until now, even though tumors are three - dimensional.

At the molecular level, tumors from various patients can often be quite different from each other, even though they belong to the same type of cancer.

Krogan believes that mutations in a few key networks of genes cause diseases like cancer, even though the individual genes that are mutated in tumors vary between different people and different types of cancer.

He's interested in the heterogeneity seen in some tumors — specifically, when cells respond to treatments differently even though they share the same DNA.

Even though basement membranes represent physical barriers that delimit different tissues, they are breached in many physiological or pathological processes, including development, the immune response, and tumor invasion.

«It was as though we'd found the tumors» lipogenic, or fat production, switch,» explains Pier Paolo Pandolfi, Director of the Cancer Center and Cancer Research Institute at BIDMC.

And drugs called gonadotropin - releasing hormone agonists can shrink the tumors, though they are linked to side effects similar to menopause, such as hot flashes.

It wasn't all because of the tumor, though.

Even though they couldn't find a tumor, the doctors decided that the only remaining option to save Donna's life was to remove her ovaries and hope for the best.

Tumors suck up so much cholesterol, though, that LDL has been considered as «a vehicle for targeting antitumor [drugs] to cancer cells.»

You keep me hopeful though that I may be tumor free, seizure free and medication free one day as well.

Though I suppose that at the beginning tumor is slightly more alkaline than surrounding tissue, then it grows and develops acidic shell with «proton pump» mechanism, keeping its core even more «live» (alkaline).

And, though they were skeptical that they would observe any difference in tumor biology in the diet - treated patients with such a short - term dietary intervention, just within those few weeks, they found significantly lower cancer proliferation rates, and significantly higher rates of cancer cell death.

Though sucralose provides just 1 gram of sugar to this mixture, it's been shown in studies to cause tumors.

What Ornish got, though, was an apparent reversal in cancer growth — the PSA didn't just rise slower, it trended down, which could be an indication of tumor shrinkage.

Demerits, though, for the cliché of the brave little tumor girl Sidney meets in the hospital, who is chipper despite her life - threatening illness, and a doctor, otherwise nicely played with a prickly edge by Nivola, who suddenly believes Sidney after she makes a snarky comment to him.

Though there is a link between the female reproductive hormone progesterones and mammary tumors, this should not be mistaken as the cause of the disease.

Answer: It really sounds more like a malignant tumor than a benign fatty mass, so removing it sounds like a good idea - at her age, there is a lot to consider when putting her under anesthesia though, so work with your veterinarian who will run tests like blood work and chest x-rays to see if she is healthy / strong enough for surgery.

Tumors like these are «benign,» meaning that even though they may grow slowly in size, they do not spread to other body parts nor invade aggressively into surrounding areas.

Since there are causes of tumors other than cancer, your veterinarian might mistakenly remove an area that is not affected even though cancer exists in other sections of the spleen.

Lung cancer is not the only type of tumor that can induce a state promoting inappropriate clotting, though, so if heart disease is not found, a tumor search should be initiated with abdominal ultrasound.

Though aggression can sometimes be related to a physical problem, such as a brain tumor, encephalitis (infection of the brain), lead poisoning, low blood sugar, or liver disease, it is usually a behavioral problem.

In both cases, the tumors are usually benign, though malignant tumors are possible.

Sadly, though, Harley's biopsy came back as a malignant spindle cell tumor which means he will have to be watched for signs of recurrence.

Though it's less common, pneumonia, a gastrointestinal disease, nasal tumors, or dental diseases may also be a cause, particularly in older dogs without a history of reverse sneezing.

Though 3 - 12 % of all tumors are basal cell tumors, less than 10 % of basal cell tumors are cancerous or malignant.