Sentences with phrase «tumor progression markers»
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Levels of a small non-coding RNA molecule called let - 7 appear to define different stages of cancer better than some of the «classical» markers for tumor progression, researchers from the University of Chicago report in the June 25, 2007, early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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The laboratory currently pursues four integrated research objectives: 1) Defining how dynamic regulation of adhesion and migration controls metastasis, 2) Identification and characterization of the metastatic cell populations within a primary tumor, 3) Experimental modeling of metastasis in a clinically relevant manner, and 4) clinical implementation of molecular markers of migration as biomarkers of tumor progression and metastasis.