Sentences with phrase «tumor diagnosis without»
It will soon allow «anyone anywhere in the world to have a brain tumor diagnosis without going to a hospital or having a biopsy,» said Joan Denison, executive director of the St. Louis chapter of Hadassah.
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Adds Liu: «With metastatic cancers accounting for around 90 % of deaths from solid tumors, the hope is that one day a device that can enable the analysis of single tumor cells circulating in the blood could make a big difference in early diagnosis, detection and monitoring of numerous types of cancer, without invasive biopsies.»
The study further suggests that NSAIDs such as aspirin, ibuprofen and naproxen have a particularly advantageous effect when taken after diagnosis by colorectal, or CRC, patients without tumor mutation in the KRAS gene (KRAS wild - type tumors): The study shows that NSAID use by this group is associated with a survival benefit of 40 percent.
While a portion of her tumor cells went to a lab for diagnosis, another was sent, without her authorization, to researchers at Johns Hopkins University Medical School [source: Highfield].