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We're asking the doctor, now please start cutting away the tumor, and you'll see here the doctor just took the first quadrant of the tumor and you see that first quadrant is now missing.
And so now we can actually imagine a world where doctors and surgeons, as they take away a tumor, they actually know what to take out, and they no longer have to guess with their thumb.
Those leftover tumors, even if it's just a handful of cells, they will grow to recur the tumor, for the tumor to come back.
A friend from college, whose brain tumor was misdiagnosed for years as anxiety.
In 1983, "Days of Our Lives"' Stefano DiMera died of a stroke, but not really, because in 1984 he died when his car plunged into the harbor, and yet he was back in 1985 with a brain tumor.
But before the tumor could kill him, Marlena shot him, and he tumbled off a catwalk to his death.
By genetic disease we mean that cancer is caused by oncogenes that are turned on in cancer and tumor suppressor genes that are turned off to cause cancer.
You might think that we learned about oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes from common cancers like breast cancer and prostate cancer and lung cancer, but you'd be wrong.
We learned about oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes for the first time in that itty-bitty little one percent of cancers called sarcoma.
Now, TP53 is the most important tumor suppressor gene.
It is the most frequently turned off tumor suppressor gene in almost every kind of cancer.
A colleague of mine removed a tumor from a patient's limb.
He was concerned about this tumor.
In our physician conferences, he talked about his concern that this was a type of tumor that had a high risk for coming back in the same limb.
Because we found it early during a routine mammogram, we were able to focus primarily on treatment options for the localized tumor, reaffirming to me how important an early diagnosis is.
She had an inoperable brain tumor, and her decline had really accelerated in the week before she came to us.
In 2010, my third son, Joel, was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive brain tumor.
And before that year was finished, doctors sat my husband and I down and let us know that his tumor had returned despite the most aggressive chemotherapy and radiation that they could offer him.
The tumor has come back.
The answer is tumor heterogeneity.
So a few decades ago, correlations began to emerge from the analysis of tumor tissue.
And the typical scenario is a patient would have a tumor detected, and the tissue would be removed in a biopsy procedure and then sent down to a pathology lab where that tissue would be analyzed to look for chemical changes that might inform the oncologist about the best course of treatment.
And yes, we have developed more selective drugs, but it's still a challenge to get them into the tumor, and they end up accumulating in the other organs as well or passing through your urine, which is a total waste.
So if we can stop these cancer cells from going from the primary tumor to a distant site, we can stop cancer right in its tracks and give people more of their lives back.
Our primary tumors were smaller in our treated animals, there were fewer cells in circulation, and there was little to no tumor burden in the distant organs.
If he has a tumor, cancer cells within it will take up a significant portion of the FDG, which will act as a beacon for the scanner.
I then wondered if they're just changing their PSA, but it's not really affecting the tumor growth.
Finally, I wondered if there's any relationship between how much people changed and how much it inhibited their tumor growth, whichever group they were in.
The tumor activity is shown in red in this patient, and you can see clearly it's better a year later, along with the PSA going down.
In fact, what they're doing here is destroying a cancerous tumor mass.
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