Fluker was just 11 years old when doctors discovered a peripheral nerve sheath tumor.
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Alas, in late August Eric's U.S. doctors found, as predicted, a tumor on his new liver.
The drugs are slowly infused into the tumor site during a three- to five-day hospital stay.
Luckily, "her vocal cords are not involved with the tumor, " according to her mother.
One senses a lack of oxygen in tissue, which is a sign of a tumor.
When I got this opportunity at eBay, Griff was running the brain tumor program at Harvard.
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She had a marshmallow-size tumor on her neck and 16 spots in her lungs.
Her tumor was so little, she say, it was classified T1, the smallest classification.
Shortly after, doctors diagnosed a brain tumor -- a malignant glioma in his left parietal lobe.
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Bayer chemists developed Nexavar based on proteins Onyx identified that showed promise for halting tumor growth.
When implanted in mice, just a few hundred of these stem cells generated a massive tumor.
The pain declined, and by summer of 2007 the tumor was no longer visible.
Surgeons removed the tumor, but within six months the cancer had spread to her liver.
For some reason, the antigens on tumor cells dont grab the soldiers attention strongly enough.
If all goes well, the beefed-up antigens will then spark an immune assault on the tumor.
You have a tumor, and the tumor becomes metastatic, and it sheds metastatic cancer cells.
The brain tumor is highly resistant to standard treatments such as surgery, radiation and chemotherapy.
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They wondered whether the immature cells might actually be the drivers of tumor growth.
Drugs could be delivered right to a tumor, allowing for higher doses than possible now.
Several companies are working on higher-power microwave tumor-zappers that may do the job faster.
He took human breast tumor cells, implanted them in mice and waited for metastases to occur.
One possibility is that side effects are canceling out the benefits of slowed tumor growth.
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Insulin was first shown to speed the growth of tumor cells early in the 20th century.
Existing cancer-drug therapies kill fast-growing cells, disrupt crucial molecular signals or attack tumor supply lines.
AorTech said Elast-Eon was also more compatible with imaging technology used in tumor screening.
The longer it takes for cancer to spread after the initial tumor, the better the prognosis.
Once in place, infrared light is shone through the skin and to the tumor.
Enbrel, concocted in 1989, targets the prototype member of this gene family: tumor necrosis factor.
Before chemotherapy, tumor cells are taken from each patient and then fused to antibody-producing mouse cells.
They are injected back into the tumor, where they become little bioreactors that release IL-12.
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