Sentences with phrase «with tumor recurrence»

They are associated with tumor recurrence and metastasis, the lethal spreading of cancer to other organs.

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After adjusting for age, tumor location, and stage, researchers from Cleveland Clinic's Dermatology & Plastic Surgery Institute discovered that women diagnosed with malignant melanoma during their pregnancy or within one year of giving birth were 5.1 - times as likely to die, 6.9 - times as likely to experience metastasis, and 9.2 - times more likely to have a recurrence.

«Surgery is the main treatment option for patients with most solid tumors, but recurrence and metastasis remain significant problems,» says study senior author Michael Goldberg, PhD, assistant professor at Dana - Farber and Harvard Medical School.

Indeed, the authors point out that Ipilimumab might better effect recurrence - free survival than adjuvant interferon and should be considered as an option by oncologists in this field considering its activity across subgroups including those with high tumor burden.

Of the 82 treated patients with small tumors, 96 percent (79 of 82) have had no recurrence more than three years after treatment, and 80 percent (28 of 35) of those with mid-size tumors also have had no recurrence.

A pre-surgery tumor size of greater than three centimeters was associated with worse LC, but local recurrence was not significantly affected by the number of brain metastases or the patients» histology or graded prognosis assessments.

A new study by UCLA scientists has found that women diagnosed with breast cancer and treated with a one - week regimen of partial breast radiation after the surgical removal of the tumor, or lumpectomy, saw no increase in cancer recurrence or difference in cosmetic outcomes compared to women who received radiation of the entire breast for a period of up to six weeks after surgery.

«We found an association between increased breast cancer recurrence in women with a primary breast cancer tumor that was positive for the IGF1 receptor, which is consistent with other studies,» said Emond.

In their paper published online in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, the researchers report that several genetic characteristics of more aggressive tumors were significantly more prevalent in African American patients and appeared to be associated with a greater risk of tumor recurrence.

«BMI1 plays a substantial role in many solid tumors, including one of the most aggressive models of lung cancer, and its expression is linked with tumor growth, invasion, metastasis, prognosis and recurrence,» Levantini said.

Aside from tumor recurrence, he could also be dealing with organ rejection or a possible hormone imbalance if the tumor is active.

The vaccine was administered to six patients with melanoma whose tumors had been removed by surgery and who were considered at high risk for recurrence.

There was also variation based on histology, with the highest rate of local recurrence at about a year after surgery seen in malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors (MPNST), followed by myxofibrosarcoma; both those types saw persistently elevated rates compared to other subtypes out beyond 5 years.

Consequently, most patients with advanced disease have died from a local recurrence of their tumor, even after aggressive treatment.

Radiation Therapy Prolongs Life in Men with Recurrent Prostate Cancer Men whose tumors recur after prostate cancer surgery are three times more likely to survive their disease long term if they undergo radiotherapy within two years of the recurrence.

Slow down lymphoma growth modestly and show no effect on tumor regression; delay tumor recurrence with activation of p53; enhance tumor regression and inhibit tumor recurrence after alkylating drug therapy.

Local tumor recurrence or tumor progression can be delayed by months to years with CFRT, and a local cure may be obtained in many instances.

Even with aggressive surgery, the tumor recurrence rate is very high (at least 50 % by 6 months after surgery).

Even with treatment, no therapy for SCC is 100 percent effective and tumor recurrence is high, with approximately one in five horses experiencing cancer relapse.

If the implant proves to prevent mammary tumor recurrence and you would like your rat to be implanted with another deslorelin implant in a year, the cost of this implant will be at your charge.

When complete removal of the tumor is not possible with the partial ulnectomy, radiation therapy may be beneficial to prevent local tumor recurrence.

For dogs with large breast tumors (> 3.0 cm), the prognosis tends to be poor since there is an 80 % chance of recurrence of the tumor within 6 months after canine breast cancer treatment.

The average survival in dogs with axial osteosarcomas is 4 - 5 months, and the most common cause of treatment failure is local tumor recurrence.

Even with the primary mammary tumor being surgically removed, spaying the pet greatly reduces the levels of estrogen and progesterone hormones which potentially further contributes to new mammary tumor formation or recurrence.

Those with the greatest risk for recurrence are those with large, high grade (II & III), or those with multiple tumors.

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