Sentences with phrase «very early tumors»

They can miss very early tumors.

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We were talking about cancer tumors, just earlier and about, you know, how, I think, it was you who was saying that, you know, the tumor grows very quickly, almost springs up all at once, and it's almost, not that it acts like an infectious thing, but it's like almost a failure of the rest of the body to prevent tumor from growing.

«This development has the potential to enable earlier detection of solid tumors through a simple blood draw by substantially improving our ability to detect very low quantities of circulating DNA derived from tumor cells,» says corresponding author Hunter Underhill, M.D., Ph.D., who initiated the research while in the lab of senior author Jay Shendure, M.D., Ph.D., a professor in genome sciences at the University of Washington.

Once this procedure had worked well in the early stages of the tumor, the researchers waited in the next stage until the tumor was very large and the life expectancy of the untreated test animals was less than three weeks.

Indeed, it is now evident that inflammation is present even at the very early stages of some tumors, and capable of promoting their development into full - blown cancer.

Those early results are very positive, and strongly indicate that the nanoparticles could be useful for assessing how effective a therapy is on a much shorter time scale than current treatments, which usually rely on observing the size of the tumor.

Harold Varmus: Well the simplistic way to think about that is and I'm not sure this is the way it will be worked out, is to be able to take just a few cells from those early lesions and examine them genetically or for other kinds of marks on the DNA that would predict whether or not this is some - this is a lesion which might or an early stage growth that might never be able to progress, but it is also possible that every early tumor of that kind has some probability of expanding and invading and growing to become a medical problem, so getting that right will obviously be crucial because it's very difficult to say when you've diagnosed something that is an early stage tumor that it won't progress.

Monday's video Cancer Prevention & Treatment May Be the Same Thing underscored the fact that since breast tumors can take decades to grow, «early» detection is actually very late, and in some cases too late.

Malignant mammary tumors in dogs, can be treated if detected early enough, and prompt action is taken, however it's very likely that tumors may reoccur.

«If caught early,» says Dr. McEntee, «the survival chances are very good — three years or more if a tumor is smaller than two centimeters in diameter.»

Early detection and treatment are very important in the successful management of tumors in pets.