Sentences with phrase «tumor blood vessels affect»

He previously revealed the existence of spontaneous immune responses in ovarian tumors as well as described how regulatory T cells and tumor blood vessels affect these responses.

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The idea was immediately controversial but Hendrix and others have since pieced together a picture of how tumors build their own blood vessels and how they can affect prognosis and treatment.

Dr. Andikyan and his team suspected the tumor was benign, but that didn't make the surgery any less challenging; the mass was situated near an important blood vessel, so there were concerns about how the operation might affect her heart.

Some cancers manifest themselves in the form of a mass of abnormal cells called a tumor, while others affect cells in the blood or lymph systemA network of organs, lymph nodes, lymph ducts, and lymph vessels that make and move lymph from tissues to the bloodstream.

Disappointingly, the results of these experiments have shown that the most abundant antibody fragment that we isolated from our library does not appear to affect the interaction of VEGF with its receptor suggesting that this clone would not inhibit the biological effects of VEGF on tumor blood vessels.

If the tumor starts to grow quickly, starts to affect how well the heart and blood vessels work, and / or starts to cause symptoms, then consider treatment.