Sentences with phrase «which small tumors»

Also increasingly valuable is a procedure known as ablation, in which small tumors are destroyed with electricity, radio waves, microwaves or by freezing, Fong said.

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The study indicated that even a small period of breastfeeding reduces the risk of these stubborn tumors, which are more common in younger women and generally have a poorer prognosis than other subtypes of breast cancer.

This tube can be squeezed shut or blocked — for example, by a tumor or a gallstone — which prevents the bile from entering the small intestine.

However, if one drug was provided continuously while the other given intermittently, the tumors shrank and remained small, no matter which drug was continuous.

The approach was most successful in making a difference in samples from the two patients in which the smaller - sized tumor DNA was not readily apparent, which may represent patients with low tumor burden and previously difficult to detect circulating tumor DNA.

An advantage of small - molecule PPF — which has been previously used in clinical trials in an attempt to treat Alzheimer's disease and dementia — is that it can penetrate the blood - brain barrier and reach the tumor.

Using a very sensitive DNA analysis technique that can also be employed when only very small amounts of DNA from old tissue are available, the researchers could compare the two current cell lines with the tumor from which the cell line was established.

Taking nutritional supplements containing antioxidants may unintentionally hasten the progression of a small tumor or premalignant lesion, neither of which is possible to detect.

By combining these two refinements, the researchers were able to enhance the sensitivity of the sensor 15-fold, which they showed was enough to detect ovarian cancer composed of small tumors (2 millimeters in diameter) in mice.

The total number of women who had mastectomies, including those for whom mastectomy was the first course of action as well as those who had failed breast conservation, was 2,479; of these, 510 (21 %) had mastectomies for tumors smaller than 20 mm in diameter, which would normally have been better treated with a lumpectomy.

The researchers grafted breast or lung tumors in mice, allowed the tumors to grow to small size and removed these tumors surgically — essentially mimicking the situation in a human tumor patient in which the tumor is surgically removed as soon as possible after diagnosis.

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.

«But we know that tumors generally develop from a single cell or a small number of cells of a specific cell type, which is one of the major determinants of the characteristics of tumor cells,» explains postdoctoral researcher and co-author Dinorah Friedmann - Morvinski.

Orders of magnitude more sensitive than conventional Raman microscopy, they allow mapping of 3D distributions of small molecules, such as metabolites and drugs, as well as tumor identification in tissues, which open many exciting new possibilities for biology and medicine.

By giving a single small dose of certain chemicals (aromatic polycyclic hydrocarbons) to selected strains of female rats he found he could produce, within a few weeks, malignant mammary tumors — many of which were hormone dependent — in 100 percent of the treated animals.

«We also identified a way to inhibit the SOX9 stabilization by treating the tumors with small molecular drugs, which made them less resistant to chemotherapy again.»

Mice injected with a strain of the Zika virus lived longer and were measured to have smaller tumors than the control group, which was injected with saltwater.

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.

Some experts have argued that the rising rates are merely a result of expanded screening, which catches small tumors that otherwise might go undetected.

It should not be surprising that smaller tumors have longer survival periods than larger tumors and there are different tissue types which can help estimate survival time.

He developed a small fatty tumor which was tested and was benign.

It's also a complex disease, of which leukemia (cancer of white blood cells) and cancerous tumors are only a small part.

The tumor soon develops into a small pink or red mass, which if left untreated, can enlarge and spread around and behind the eye, to the skull, sinuses of the skull, brain and to other parts of the body.

Large and small animal nuclear medicine is available and is a subspecialty of radiology in which radioisotopes (compounds containing radioactive forms of atoms) are put into the body to evaluate organ function or localize bone disease such as stress fractures or tumor metastasis.

A small percentage of dogs with Cushing's disease have a tumor of one of the adrenal glands, which is called adrenal - dependent Cushing's.

Although I am not a veterinarian, based on your description I believe there is a good chance that your ferret has insulinomas, which are small tumors of the beta cells of the pancreas that make a ferret's blood sugar drop.