Sentences with phrase «tissue near the tumor»

The treatment may cause scarring of the heart muscle or lung tissue near the tumor.

Not exact matches

Dissolving polymer wafers soaked with chemotherapy drugs were being implanted near tumors, but Stephan knew that T cells, which are capable of «squeezing throughout the entire tumor bed,» would be more effective than drugs, which can only penetrate a millimeter or so into tissue.

LaRue had a skin - sparing mastectomy, which removed the tumor and her breast tissue through a small semicircular incision near the nipple.

I lean away from removing benign tumors but if it is somewhere where if it starts to grow, I won't have enough tissue to close the wound around it, or if it is near his rear end and might start trapping feces or something odd like that I might recommend removing it.

A tumor found in the folds of skin has plenty of excess tissue to stitch back together, where a tumor near the bone does not.