Sentences with phrase «what kind of tumor»

Additionally, veterinarians usually want to take a fluid sample from the lymph nodes to look for cancerous cells and will perform a biopsy of any oral mass to determine exactly what kind of tumor is present.

A biopsy is the only way to determine what kind of tumor your dog has.

Not exact matches

That suggested critical importance of the tissue environment, what Zhang calls the «seed and soil» model: Tumors that grow in one kind of tissue won't grow in another easily.

The federal government is launching a very different kind of cancer study that will assign patients drugs based on what genes drive their tumors rather than the type.

In the next decade, molecular research is going to further develop along five lines: predictive medicine, that investigates the genetic conditions predisposing to tumor risk; early molecular diagnosis; the evaluation of each patient's prognosis based on his / her genetic profile, in other words, the analysis of what kind of mutation affects the DNA of altered cells; the investigation of the individual response to drugs, based on our genetic knowledge; «smart drugs», molecules able to hit the target in a selective way, killing only the deprogrammed cells.»

No matter what you call them, masses of all kinds, from harmless skin growths to malignant tumors, are actually fairly common in our furry friends.

What I had meant to ask was: Does a tumor that grows that quickly indicate that it is already far too late for any kind of intervention?