Sentences with phrase «tumor recurrence in»

The study demonstrated a trend toward a reduction in the incidence of tumor recurrence in patients who had pelvic RT..

«Low - dose chemotherapy regimens could prevent tumor recurrence in types of breast cancer, pancreatic cancer.»

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In melanoma, they can be used to determine tumor stage, diagnosis, therapy selection and when to monitor for disease recurrence.

Conventional, high - dose chemotherapy treatments can cause the fibroblast cells surrounding tumors to secrete proteins that promote the tumors» recurrence in more aggressive forms, researchers at Taipei Medical University and the National Institute of Cancer Research in Taiwan and University of California, San Francisco, have discovered.

According to follow - up reports, Zola remained well for eight more years before dying from a recurrence of the tumor in his native Italy.

«Studies like the current one involving rhabdomyosarcoma are giving us a close - up look at the way cancer evolves in response to treatment,» said study co-author Richard K. Wilson, Ph.D., director of The Genome Institute at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, where scientists have extensive expertise analyzing tumor recurrence using whole - genome sequencing.

«In order to block tumor recurrence after radiation therapy, we used an antibody to target and inhibit these cancer stem cells,» said Dr. Xu.

ON THE ROAD Breast cancer cells may break away from the main tumor in clumps, already bearing most of the mutations that will drive cancer recurrence, a study suggests.

Indeed, the authors point out that Ipilimumab might better effect recurrence - free survival than adjuvant interferon and should be considered as an option by oncologists in this field considering its activity across subgroups including those with high tumor burden.

The primary endpoint of this trial is recurrence of breast cancer in the same breast, known as ipsilateral breast tumor recurrence (IBTR).

«14 -3-3 sigma expression levels can help predict overall and recurrence - free survival rates, tumor glucose uptake, and metabolic gene expression in breast cancer patients,» said Lee.

Cancer stem cells, a type of self - renewing cell found in tumors, are of particular interest because they are the main cell type responsible for tumor progression and for resistance to chemotherapy and radiotherapy, and therefore a major cause of tumor recurrence after treatment.

Furthermore, we demonstrate that perioperative anti-inflammatory treatment markedly reduces tumor outgrowth in this model, suggesting that similar approaches might substantially reduce early metastatic recurrence in breast cancer patients.

In their study published in The Journal of Pathology, the team shows that tumor relapse occurs when the body, in effect, mobilizes itself in favor of the tumor, causing recurrence of the disease, increasing its aggressiveness and creating metastases or tumor spreaIn their study published in The Journal of Pathology, the team shows that tumor relapse occurs when the body, in effect, mobilizes itself in favor of the tumor, causing recurrence of the disease, increasing its aggressiveness and creating metastases or tumor spreain The Journal of Pathology, the team shows that tumor relapse occurs when the body, in effect, mobilizes itself in favor of the tumor, causing recurrence of the disease, increasing its aggressiveness and creating metastases or tumor spreain effect, mobilizes itself in favor of the tumor, causing recurrence of the disease, increasing its aggressiveness and creating metastases or tumor spreain favor of the tumor, causing recurrence of the disease, increasing its aggressiveness and creating metastases or tumor spread.

And although a recurrence of the cancer — this time in his brain — would eventually claim his life on November 8, 1991, the fact that his lung tumor disappeared completely begs for an explanation.

A new study by UCLA scientists has found that women diagnosed with breast cancer and treated with a one - week regimen of partial breast radiation after the surgical removal of the tumor, or lumpectomy, saw no increase in cancer recurrence or difference in cosmetic outcomes compared to women who received radiation of the entire breast for a period of up to six weeks after surgery.

«We found an association between increased breast cancer recurrence in women with a primary breast cancer tumor that was positive for the IGF1 receptor, which is consistent with other studies,» said Emond.

It has been recognized that the more aggressive triple - negative breast cancer occurs more frequently in African American women, but no previous study has examined racial differences in tumor genotype and how they might contribute to the risk of cancer recurrence.

In their paper published online in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, the researchers report that several genetic characteristics of more aggressive tumors were significantly more prevalent in African American patients and appeared to be associated with a greater risk of tumor recurrencIn their paper published online in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, the researchers report that several genetic characteristics of more aggressive tumors were significantly more prevalent in African American patients and appeared to be associated with a greater risk of tumor recurrencin the Journal of Clinical Oncology, the researchers report that several genetic characteristics of more aggressive tumors were significantly more prevalent in African American patients and appeared to be associated with a greater risk of tumor recurrencin African American patients and appeared to be associated with a greater risk of tumor recurrence.

«The higher risk of tumor recurrence that we observed among African American women was reduced when controlling for those factors, suggesting that these genomic differences contribute, at least partly, to the known racial disparity in the survival of African American and Caucasian breast cancer patients.»

«In this study we've shown five distinct ways — by quantifying tumor burden, identifying disease subtype, cataloging mutations, predicting transformation and providing early warnings of recurrence — that circulating tumor DNA can yield potentially clinically useful information,» said Diehn.

A study from investigators at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Cancer Center has, for the first time, identified genomic differences between the breast tumors of African American and white women, differences that could contribute to the recognized differences in recurrence rate and survival.

Nine additional patients had recurrence within the involved lobe (range, 0.1 to 5.9 years after SBRT), resulting in a five - year primary tumor and involved lobe (local) failure rate of 20 percent.

«BMI1 plays a substantial role in many solid tumors, including one of the most aggressive models of lung cancer, and its expression is linked with tumor growth, invasion, metastasis, prognosis and recurrence,» Levantini said.

In the new study, published online March 27, 2018, in Cell Reports, a team led by UCSF's David Raleigh, MD, PhD, found that increased activity of a gene known as FOXM1 appears to be responsible for the aggressive growth and frequent recurrence of these tumorIn the new study, published online March 27, 2018, in Cell Reports, a team led by UCSF's David Raleigh, MD, PhD, found that increased activity of a gene known as FOXM1 appears to be responsible for the aggressive growth and frequent recurrence of these tumorin Cell Reports, a team led by UCSF's David Raleigh, MD, PhD, found that increased activity of a gene known as FOXM1 appears to be responsible for the aggressive growth and frequent recurrence of these tumors.

There was also variation based on histology, with the highest rate of local recurrence at about a year after surgery seen in malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors (MPNST), followed by myxofibrosarcoma; both those types saw persistently elevated rates compared to other subtypes out beyond 5 years.

DENVER — Three manuscripts published in the recent issue of the Journal of Thoracic Oncology, the official journal of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC), explored the versatility of liquid biopsies by identifying EGFR mutations using circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) in urine and plasma and examining circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in plasma to predict the risk of lung cancer recurrence after surgical resection.

«Tamoxifen is an excellent agent to use to both prevent breast cancer in high - risk women, and to reduce cancer recurrence in women who develop tumors, so our goal is to ensure that patients who use this drug can respond to it,» Hilakivi - Clarke says.

If the infiltrated cells are in fact differentiated tumor cells, their dissemination beyond the surgical boundary may not be the primary cause of tumor recurrence.

Radiation Therapy Prolongs Life in Men with Recurrent Prostate Cancer Men whose tumors recur after prostate cancer surgery are three times more likely to survive their disease long term if they undergo radiotherapy within two years of the recurrence.

Positron emission tomography (PET) imaging of metabolic tumor burden at diagnosis and after induction therapy can help identify patients most at risk of follicular lymphoma (FL) recurrence, but more work is needed to differentiate high - risk and moderate - risk patients, suggested findings from a pooled analysis of data from three prospective clinical trials, published in Blood.

In addition, P32 - labeled peptides may serve another valuable use: to find small metastases or recurrences of colon tumors while they are still small enough to treat.

Dormant tumor cells in a hypoxic bone marrow niche (19) will be enriched for CSC in ER - α — positive breast cancer but depleted in ER - α — negative cancers profoundly influencing the capacity for late disease recurrence.

This tumor recurrence often shows up in different sites such bones, lung, liver, or brain and primarily responsible for breast cancer related deaths.

Local tumor recurrence or tumor progression can be delayed by months to years with CFRT, and a local cure may be obtained in many instances.

The wider the excision, the longer the time to recurrence and the longer the survival time but the longest survival times include radiotherapy in the treatment of this tumor.

Even with treatment, no therapy for SCC is 100 percent effective and tumor recurrence is high, with approximately one in five horses experiencing cancer relapse.

If the implant proves to prevent mammary tumor recurrence and you would like your rat to be implanted with another deslorelin implant in a year, the cost of this implant will be at your charge.

Recurrence and metastasis (spread of the tumor to other sites in the animal).

In dogs, the size of malignant mammary tumors is an important consideration when determining prognosis, both for local tumor recurrence and survival time.

The average survival in dogs with axial osteosarcomas is 4 - 5 months, and the most common cause of treatment failure is local tumor recurrence.

If an owner's dog was affected by epulis, the person needs to perform routine check - ups as recommended by the vet in order to monitor the dog for potential recurrence of the tumor.

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