Sentences with phrase «tumor tissues removed»

«The ability to test our ideas in tumor tissues removed from patients underscores the unique and multi-disciplinary nature of our Prostate Cancer Program, one of only eight Prostate Cancer Programs of Excellence in National Cancer Institute Designated Centers,» said Dr. Knudsen.

Not exact matches

The surgeons removed a softball - sized tumor along with skin and muscle tissue surrounding it.

Understanding how margin length decreases from surgery to pathology — because of how the removed tissue shrinks and tumor cells invade surrounding tissues — can lead to better surgical margin planning and in turn a better prognosis, said corresponding author Milan Milovancev, a board - certified veterinary surgeon at OSU's College of Veterinary Medicine.

Virtual - reality technology is giving surgeons the equivalent of x-ray vision, helping them to remove tumors more effectively, to minimize surgical wounds and to avoid damaging critical tissues

You can visit them there, where you can also see a tumor removed from Grover Cleveland's mouth; a slice of tissue from the chest of John Wilkes Booth; the shared liver of the famous conjoined («Siamese») twins Chang and Eng Bunker; and a collection of cysts, tumors, and deformities of all sorts.

Sharma had developed a new method for studying how tumors with different characteristics respond to different immunotherapies: She would treat patients before their growths were surgically removed, then analyze the tissue in her lab.

The new «tumor in a dish» method begins by taking the cancerous tissue removed during surgery or biopsy, cutting it up into small pieces and putting them in a special collagen gel that maintains them as «organoids» that retain the three - dimensional structure of the original tumor and include supporting cells from the tumor's environment.

However, because of the aggressive way glioblastomas invade surrounding brain tissue, it is impossible to remove all parts of the tumors, and the cancer eventually returns and spreads.

Researchers at Oregon State University have developed a new way to selectively insert compounds into cancer cells — a system that will help surgeons identify malignant tissues and then, in combination with phototherapy, kill any remaining cancer cells after a tumor is removed.

Next steps include He's collaboration with Piedmont Atlanta Hospital to retrieve T cells, liver cancer cells and healthy tissue normally removed from patients during surgery, put the mouse receptor genes on these T cells and monitor in a dish both how those cells now fight the tumor and react to healthy human tissue.

To demonstrate how infrared light can help surgeons to see and remove tumors, he shows how a laser pointer penetrates deep into human tissue causing it to glow red.

A biopsy to confirm the diagnosis is performed by removing a small piece of tissue from the tumor for examination under a microscope.

At McCain's request, the Mayo Clinic, which is treating him, released a statement explaining that «tissue pathology revealed that a primary brain tumor known as a glioblastoma was associated with the blood clot» that was removed.

DNA Detectives Find Genetic Markers for Lung Cancers Most Likely to Recur Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center uncovered clearly recognizable genetic alterations in tumors and tissue removed from patients with early - stage lung cancers that look like good predictors of which of these cancers are more likely to recur.

However, those who do (nearly 30,000 each year) develop aggressive tumors that grow and spread rapidly, sometimes even after radical surgery to remove all cancerous tissue.

The surgery can be «open» — meaning, the doctor will make a large cut to remove the tumor, surrounding healthy tissue, and nearby lymph nodes all at once — or «minimally invasive,» in which a surgeon can use special tools to remove the growths by making a few smaller cuts.

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

Your vet must surgically remove the tumor, also taking out a large margin of tissue.

Chemotherapy is often used in addition to surgical excision if the veterinarian was not able to remove the entire tumor or it has penetrated into the subcutaneous tissue or muscles below the skin.

With large tumors, additional tissue attached to the tumor may need to be removed.

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.

After a thorough examination, your veterinarian will remove the tumor alone or choose to remove the surrounding tissue, lymph nodes and mammary glands.

The diagnosis, prediction of behavior (prognosis) and a microscopic assessment of whether the tumor has been completely removed rely on microscopic examination of tissue samples (histopathology).

Accurate diagnosis, prediction of behavior (prognosis) and a microscopic assessment of whether the tumor has been fully removed rely on microscopic examination of tissue samples (histopathology).

Diagnosis, prediction of behavior (prognosis) and assessment of whether the tumor has been fully removed rely on microscopic examination of surgically removed tissue from the suspect tumor (histopathology).

Both tumors need to be quickly removed along with a very liberal (large) section of adjoining skin and tissue.

Despite their benign characteristics, these tumors should also be removed because they can become quite large and impinge on surrounding tissues or impede limb movement.

This may involve taking samples of tumor tissue, it may mean removing the whole tumor, or it may be an attempt to remove as much of the tumor as possible.

This is especially true because malignant tumors, like TCC, need to be removed with a «margin» of normal tissue around the tumor.

Once the tumor has been removed, definitive diagnosis of the type of tumor, the stage it has reached and therefore prediction of its behavior (prognosis) relies upon microscopic examination of tissue (histopathology).

If the tumor is still small, it may be removed, but part of the healthy tissue surrounding it will have to be removed.

Treatment options include: Surgery may be performed if the tumor has not spread and the entire tumor can be removed without compromising function of the associated tissues.

It can sometimes be treated successfully with surgery - but the surgery must be very aggressive, removing a large amount of tissue surrounding the tumor - possibly even bone.

In all these surgeries we remove a wide margin of tissue to ensure we removed all of the tumor.

For dogs with kidney tumors or cancer, the part of the kidney with diseased tissue is surgically removed (called a nephrectomy).

The preferred treatment is to remove the tumor surgically with 0.5 - 1 cm margins of the normal tissue surrounding the tumor.

With so much of the skin removed along with the tumor, it was impossible to completely close the remaining tissue.

Essential oils can and do still benefit these issues - as they can help the body to remove inflammation, support the body systems in repair, improve immune system function, relieve stress and discomfort, support the surrounding muscle and tissue structures, promote death of abnormal cells (apoptosis of tumor cells), provide antibacterial and antiviral actions, and more.

Your vet may stick a needle into the breast tissue and withdraw some of the tumor cells, or he may do a more invasive biopsy, involving actual surgery to remove the lump for pathological analysis.

Removing the ovaries by spaying the dog before the first heat cycle prevents the release of hormones, thus leaving the breast tissue as a hostile environment for the tumor cells.

Since these tumors can have cells that invade nearby tissue, your veterinarian will take a substantial portion of the issue around the tumor when it is removed.

In dogs with primary tumors, the alkaline phosphatase (hydrolase enzyme responsible for removing phosphate groups from many types of molecules), alanine transferase (enzyme found in the liver and other tissues) are usually elevated.

A wide margin (large portion of healthy tissue around the tumor, possible including some bone) needs to be taken to assure all of the epulis is removed.

Since all the breast tissue is pre programmed to make tumors, I feel that the dog may be truly better off with the susceptible mammary tissue being removed; however, the literature does not suggest this for localized tumors.

Your veterinarian must remove a section of the tumor tissue from your dog shortly after death.