But when they metastasize and move into the body, invading bone, patients face an excruciatingly painful decline.
Faced with a small but significant insurgency, American commanders employed a strategy that insured that it would metastasize.
It blocks a protein called endothelin, which is secreted by prostate tumors in large amounts and helps them metastasize.
The goal: a gene-based prognostic test, one that could predict years in advance which tumor will metastasize and kill you.
He also warns that in today's networked, digital marketplace, consumer buzz about disappointments with a product can metastasize quickly and widely.
Besides early diagnosis, another goal is to devise tests that spot which tumors are most likely to metastasize and kill a patient.
One idea, put forth by Soon-Shiong himself, was that when cancer cells metastasize they secrete a protein called SPARC, which also leads them to absorb Abraxane.
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Going a step better, Millennium and Becton, Dickinson will soon introduce a test to predict which cases of melanoma, a nasty form of skin cancer, will metastasize.
By abandoning their realist tradition of national defense and martial preparedness, the Europeans allowed a mortal threat to metastasize and grow, instead of striking it at early and preventing it from taking shape.
It may also reveal the extent to which U.S. officials have, with their failure to comprehend the true nature of the threat we face, acted, either wittingly or unwittingly, in ways that have enabled it to metastasize further.
This actually can take place on the cellular level within a given cancer and can evolve toward being, for instance, resistant to chemotherapy, more likely to metastasize, and ultimately, at least potentially, towards the ability to transmit from one individual to another.
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