News tagged with benign tumors


Mice with skin condition help scientists understand tumor growth

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jul 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cancerous tumors sometimes form at the site of chronic wounds or injury, but the reason why is not entirely clear. Now researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have engineered mice with a persistent ...





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Researchers identify possible imaging method to stratify breast cancer without biopsy

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created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists from the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson have discovered a possible way for malignant breast tumors to be identified, without the need for a biopsy. The findings were published online ahead of print in the Journal of ...


MRI 'best' for looking at breast cancer and more

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created Apr 11, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The use of MRI is effective in differentiating the blood supply to medial and lateral breast tumors, which is important in treatment planning and prognosis according to a study conducted by researchers at the University of ...


Ultrasound may better classify ovarian tumors

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created Nov 13, 2007 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

An elevated level of the protein CA-125 in blood is considered an indicator of whether an ovarian tumor is benign or malignant. This measure, however, can often be inaccurate. Another option is an ultrasound examination of ...


Study provides documentation that tumor 'stem-like cells' exist in benign tumors

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created Jul 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cancer stem-like cells have been implicated in the genesis of a variety of malignant cancers. Research scientists at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute have isolated stem-like cells in benign ...


3-D doppler ultrasound helps identify breast cancer

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created Oct 21, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Three-dimensional (3-D) power Doppler ultrasound helps radiologists distinguish between malignant and benign breast masses, according to a new study being published in the November issue of Radiology.


Reasonable alternative to invasive biopsy of palpable breast lesions with benign imaging features identified

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created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Short-term follow-up is a reasonable alternative to invasive biopsy of palpable (capable of being touched or felt) breast lesions with benign imaging features, particularly in younger women with probable fibroadenoma (non-cancerous ...


'Normalizing' tumor vessels leaves cancer more benign

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created Feb 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A report publishing online on February 12th in the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication, suggests a counterintuitive new method to make cancer less likely to spread: by normalizing the shape of tumors' blood vessels to ...


Anti-angiogenesis treatment improves hearing in some NF2 patients

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jul 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Treatment with the angiogenesis inhibitor bevacizumab improved hearing and alleviated other symptoms in patients with neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2). In a paper to appear in the July 23 New England Journal of Medicine, which ...


Research reveals molecular pathway behind invasive prostate cancers

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created May 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

University of Cincinnati (UC) cancer and cell biologists have identified a new molecular pathway key to the development of invasive prostate cancers.


Finding the source: Cells that initiate a common infant tumor identified

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created Jun 05, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Infantile hemangiomas, exemplified by the strawberry-like patches that appear on the skin of infants soon after birth, are benign tumors that develop in 5%-10% of Caucasian infants and usually disappear by the age of 9 without ...



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