Sentences with phrase «tumors are tumors»

Lymphatic tumors are tumors of certain white blood cells called lymphocytes.

Perianal gland tumors are tumors found near or on a dog's anus.

The risk with basal cell tumors is the tumors may spread to other parts of the body including organs.

A mammary tumor is a tumor originating in the mammary gland.

Not exact matches

«In the long term, we want to be able to send energy to and communicate with implants all over the body, to record data from a variety of organs in many different ways, maybe even report on the conditions of tumors or cancer therapies,» Maharbiz says.

Is it a brain tumor, a migraine, or a bad hangover?

Moghadam later attributed some of his behavior to the effects of the then unknown brain tumor, but the first indication that Moghadam's unruly approach could do damage came late last year, after his surgery had been deemed a success.

And so early efforts centered on making sure the gas tank was filled — priming the immune system with cytokines (such as the interleukins) or with immune - signaling proteins like interferon to rev up the tumor - fighting response.

It's the first time the agency has approved a drug that targets cancer based on a tumor's genetic traits, rather than where it is located in the body.

The favorable composition of flora were associated with a «higher activation status» of their killer T cells within the tumor compared to those who had an abundance of Bacteroidales.

When she was 18, still in high school, Chantelle was found to have an absurdly rare and deadly tumor.

«And then, when we put a melanoma tumor into those mice, they either were very slow to grow or were completely rejected,» says Wargo.

A new study, conducted by the U.S. National Toxicology Program, found that rats consistently exposed to radiofrequency radiation from cellphones were more likely to develop malignant tumors in the brain and heart.

Novocure's main focus to date has been treating glioblastoma, or GBM, a type of tumor that affects the brain.

Today his company is developing a new cancer vaccine technology that teaches immune cells how to recognize and remove tumor cells.

From customized 3 - D printed prosthetics and hip replacements, to 3 - D printed bones, skin and personalized replicas of tumors (for use in cancer treatment), the industry is a place where novel technology and actual use cases have intercepted to create real innovation.

If you ask Bill Doyle, the executive chairman of the board of Novocure, the two - pronged strategy for expanding his tumor - tackling biotechnology company is «relatively simple.»

It has already invested in some companies that graduated from the Labs incubator, including Modern Meadow, a New Jersey — based startup that's biofabricating leather without the need for animals, and 3Scan, a company that enables 3D analysis of tumors and organs.

It's so unusual in the heart that doctors often write up their findings for medical journals when the tumors are found in cardiac tissue.

The key to this effort is the ability to detect what's known as circulating tumor DNA, or CTDNA.

Delano said a previous doctor told him the bump was a lipoma — a harmless tumor made of fat cells.

However, in an emailed release, Bucher said the tumors observed in the studies «are similar to tumors previously reported in some studies of frequent cellphone users.»

And two years on, the heart tumors were «the only positive finding that we've been really able to have confidence in,» Bucher told reporters.

The fund was created in honor of Connor Michalek, a WWE fan that the couple met, who passed away in 2014 after battling with medulloblastoma, a rare tumor.

Is that thing on your foot a wart or a worrying tumor?

Our partner physicians use data and analytics to do exactly what you described, which is to determine the best protocol for patient care — disease and tumor - specific — so they don't over-treat or waste resources.

It's also difficult to identify a tumor versus a healthy cell, even with advanced technology.

Because the tumor chips can be printed, essentially, in unlimited supply, the possibility for fine - tuning a drug therapy is endless.

The institute's Tumor Neoantigen Selection Alliance, which includes Bhardwaj's team and others from the University of Pennsylvania and to Stanford Medicine, is focusing on discovering «cancer markers» and then making predictions on neoantigens to combat them.

«You can imagine a scenario for many cancers... where we the community will be able to make you immune to your own tumor,» Ramsdell said.

The first step in the process is to surgically remove the patient's tumor and ensure that the patient is cancer free by confirming that there is no sign of cancer on blood tests and imaging studies.

Right now, that data is locked up in electronic health records, which tend to be organized to help bill insurers, rather than detail, say, the rate at which the tumor is shrinking, in a way that could be pulled out for a study.

Immune cells modified by CRISPR - Cas9 were inserted into a lung cancer patient at the West China Hospital in Chengdu in the hopes that they'll be able to fight tumors, and 10 people total will receive injections of CRISPR re-engineered cells in order to assess the method's safety.

The method involves tagging a molecular drug delivery vehicle with synthetic DNA that can then be used to see how cancerous tumors are responding to specific treatments (the drugs themselves are placed into these tagged nanoparticles).

It will focus its initial clinical sequencing efforts on cancer, teaming up with the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego to sequence the genomes of every patient who is treated there, as well as perform a full genome sequence on their tumors.

For those taking pembrolizumab, there needs to be a certain threshold of PD - L1 expressed on the tumor for treatment, according to the FDA's label.

His death wouldn't be as welcome if he hadn't revealed that he's the one who gave Peter Quill's mother a brain tumor.

These modified cells are then put back into patients in order to attack cancerous tumors.

They are finding cancerous tumors that are in phase 0 and 1 in patients who are experiencing no pain, whereas most people are often diagnosed in phase 4, where pain is prevalent and the disease is more difficult to beat.

«Opdivo has become a foundational treatment that is transforming cancer care across multiple tumor types,» chief executive Giovanni Caforio said in a statement.

According to Merck Manual, the ovary would also be completely removed if an ovarian tumor is present.

Of the seven comments, someone suggests additional x-rays while another commenter asks if it could be a hemangioma, a benign tumor.

For some companies meetings are a tumor of unproductiveness waiting to be excised, while for others they're the lifeblood of the company's communication in chaotic times.

David F. Arons, CEO of the National Brain Tumor Society, said in a statement that the country should be «doubling down on biomedical research funding, not pulling back,» according to Bloomberg.

It's wrong for this type of tumor.

Indolfi's device doesn't have that problem — she likens it to a bandage that can be rolled up, slid inside a catheter, and then applied directly to the tumor to deliver the drug.

Among her colleagues and competitors is a team of researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that also is working on an implantable device to deliver drugs directly to a tumor; a group at the University of Pennsylvania that is looking at using specialized antibodies to combat the disease; and a team of German researchers who are experimenting with specialized peptides.

But none of the control rats developed brain tumors as would have been expected, and the male rats exposed to radiation actually outlived their non-exposed counterparts.

The department said the information was intended to help people who are concerned about health risks including brain tumors, lowered sperm counts, and effects on learning, memory, and sleep.

Her discovery of radium lead to the development of using X-rays in medicine, and Curie was at the forefront for cancer research, directing the first studies that used radiation to treat tumors.