Sentences with phrase «very small cancers»

A rise in ultrasound screening which can pick up very small cancers is probably one reason diagnoses are on the rise, says Dr. Yim, but larger cancers are being detected as well.

Not exact matches

«I only have the data at a very high level, but we did detect a small number of people who tested positively in their DNA for being at risk for cancer.

My sister in law's mother died of cancer, in a very small town a long way from any hospitals of note.

Most large studies have found only a very small decrease in risk of colon cancer with the consumption of higher levels of dietary fiber and no decrease in risk of colon cancer recurrence, according to the University of Maryland Medical Center.

Manufacturing small proteins known as peptides is usually very time - consuming, which has slowed development of new peptide drugs for diseases such as cancer, diabetes, and bacterial infections.

Former Cancer Prevention Fellow Lisa Colbert, currently at the National Institute on Aging and soon to assume a position as assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin, states: «I am now one of a very small number of exercise physiologists who also have an M.P.H..

Although that extra exposure can increase cancer risk, the effect is very small.

siRNAs are very small molecules that carry genetic information to cells, but unlike DNA that can turn genes on, siRNA interferes with the production of particular proteins and can turn cancer genes off.

«Hodgkin lymphoma is unusual among cancers in that it consists of a small number of tumor cells in a sea of inflammatory cells and immune system cells, including T cells that don't work very effectively.»

It is worth adding that the very small predicted increases in the cancer incidence rate in the local population will be barely detectable, and hidden within normal random fluctuations.

However, what our trial has shown is that although this is still the case, the proportion of women who will actually have a recurrence without radiotherapy is very small (less than 5 percent), five years after treatment,» said Ian Kunkler, F.R.C.R., professor of clinical oncology at the Edinburgh Cancer Research Center in the University of Edinburgh.

«We showed with this technique that we can detect very tiny tumors of just a few hundred cells,» Lu said, adding that the study pushed imaging boundaries, revealing smaller cancers than can be detected with current clinical imaging modalities.

A new report, analyzing cancer incidence in 478,478 men and women ages 25 to 70 over more than eight years in 10 European countries, found «a very small inverse association between the intake of total fruits and vegetables and cancer risk,» the researchers concluded.

For example, Hearl says, «If you can weaken cancer cells through a small molecule treatment and then come after it with an activated immune system, you end up with a very effective one - two punch.»

Experts had realized that retrovirus - based therapy might cause cancer, he explains, but the risk seemed very small.

«We wanted to know if eradication of this very small population of stem cells would improve organ function, and both kidney and heart were completely protected from developing fibrosis - related complications (e.g., kidney failure and heart failure),» said Humphreys, who also heads the Onco - Nephrology Program at the Dana - Farber Cancer Institute.

However, the statistics behind these risks are based on very small numbers of sick kids, said Susan Amirian, an assistant professor with the Baylor College of Medicine's Duncan Cancer Center in Houston.

The risk of childhood cancer is still very small, even after factoring in the results of this study, said lead author Dr. Marte Myhre Reigstad.

A new magnetic resonance imaging procedure can spot breast cancer very early in mice, finding the smallest cancers ever detected by MRI.

Unlike previous MRI studies of tumors in mice, the researchers were able to detect very small naturally occurring cancers, which were excellent models for human breast cancer; the tumors the mice developed were «realistic models of the most frequently detected human cancers,» the authors wrote.

«Although the word «cured» doesn't often go along with a pancreatic cancer diagnosis, the likelihood of Ron having a recurrence, while certainly not zero, is very small,» Posner said.

«These are very small tumors,» added cancer specialist and study co-author Suzanne Conzen, MD, associate professor of medicine at the University of Chicago Medical Center.

«In 100 percent of small - cell lung cancers, there is a deletion in this region of chromosome 3, very often including the HYAL2 gene,» he said.

This allows pathologists to diagnose the existence of cancer, but the sample tends to be very small, and there's been some debate about how useful that small amount of material can be for molecular testing,» Aisner says.

These are called low penetrance genes.Although each gene has a very small effect on risk, when we have many of such genes then our cancer risk is considerably increased.

Meanwhile, another review published today highlights a very real downside of drinking, even in moderation: For women, just one small glass of alcohol a day increases breast cancer risk, says a new report from the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) and the World Cancer Research Fund (cancer risk, says a new report from the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) and the World Cancer Research Fund (Cancer Research (AICR) and the World Cancer Research Fund (Cancer Research Fund (WCRF).

Broadly speaking, stage 2 cancers may have penetrated the walls of the surrounding muscle tissue and infiltrated a small number of very nearby lymph nodes, but they haven't reached more distant lymph nodes or other areas of the body.

Also, PSA tests can detect small prostate cancers, including some very slow - growing tumors that are unlikely to be life - threatening and may not add any relevant information about aggressive prostate tumors that are already spreading.

Similarly, there's no benefit for B - vitamin supplementation on cancer risk (5), but studies of Hcy raising genotype on breast cancer risk have shown no or very small increase in risk (6, 7).

But using natural products to prevent and stop cancer that is very small and growing over decades like Dr. Fuhrman and all these other practitioners do isn't.

It seems all studies never guarantee solid results — I would imagine someone eating what would be considered the perfect WFPB diet (with no added oils, sugars, salt, etc.) still has a very very small chance of developing some type of mortal disease / cancer / diabetes etc..

«The types of cancer are very similar to those diagnosed in humans and similar cancers appear in both small animal species such as lymphoma and skin tumors.

While canine mast cell tumors often appear small and insignificant, they can be a very serious form of cancer in dogs.

For small pets selection of the proper caging and bedding is very important to reducing their risk of developing cancer.