In addition, some drugs that modulate tumor cell behaviour without directly attacking those cells may be used.

In particularly large tumors, such as large lymphomas, some patients develop tumor lysis syndrome from the rapid breakdown of malignant cells.

Dichloroacetate ( DCA ) has been found to shrink tumors in vivo in rats, and has a plausible scientific mechanism: DCA appears to reactivate suppressed mitochondria in some types of oxygen-starved tumor cells, and thus promotes apoptosis.

Gankyrin is anti-apoptotic and has been shown to be overexpressed in some tumor cell types such as hepatocellular carcinoma.

Many transcription factors, especially some that are proto-oncogenes or tumor suppressors, help regulate the cell cycle and as such determine how large a cell will get and when it can divide into two daughter cells.

Alternatively, certain patients can choose to have a wide local excision, also known as a lumpectomy, an operation in which a small volume of breast tissue containing the tumor and some surrounding healthy tissue is removed to conserve the breast.

No tumor was found, but there was some shrinkage of the left hemisphere of his brain, which was re-inflated with serous fluid.

Ravel's death was probably a result of the brain surgery, with the underlying cause arguably being a brain injury caused by the automobile accident in 1932, and not from a brain tumor as some believe.

* Hormone-secreting tumors: some hormones ( e. g., serotonin ) can cause diarrhea if excreted in excess ( usually from a tumor ).

One must keep in mind, however, that neurofibromatosis can occur in or affect any of the organ systems, whether that entails simply compressing them ( from tumor growth ) or in fact altering the organs in some fundamental way.

In some of these cases a primary tumor may appear later.

Despite the use of techniques, in some cases the primary tumor remains unidentified.

Additionally, the metastatic-associated expression of these genes was also observed in some primary tumors, indicating that cells with the potential to metastasize could be identified concurrently with diagnosis of the primary tumor.

They are also able to recognize and eliminate some tumor cells and cells infected with herpes viruses.

In some circumstances, focused radiation or a GH antagonist such as pegvisomant may be employed to shrink the tumor or block function.

By staining the cells from a biopsy, a pathologist can determine whether the tumor is an adenocarcinoma or some other type of cancer.

Solid epithelial cell tumors have been shown to cause both tissue and blood eosinophilia, with some reports indicating that this may be mediated by interleukin production by tumor cells, especially IL-5 or IL-3.

Endoscopic mucosal resection ( EMR ) is a treatment for early gastric cancer ( tumor only involves the mucosa ) that has been pioneered in Japan, but is also available in the United States at some centers.

Benign or malignant tumors of nonendocrine tissues occur as components of some of these tumor syndromes.

This may be a reversible effect, and some new treatment modalities may re-sensitize the tumor to standard therapy.

Although there is definite and convincing statistical correlation between carcinoma grade and tumor prognosis for some tumor types and sites of origin, the strength of this association can be highly variable.

To some extent, this can be done via blood tests for tumor markers, but definitive diagnosis requires examination of the histology of a specimen by a pathologist.

However, environmental factors and therapeutic interferences may cause some discrepancies between tumor burden and bioluminescence intensity in relation to changes in proliferative activity.

This did not mean that married students could not enroll in other `` mixed '' sections, and some of them, largely because of scheduling difficulties, did.

Computers reduced the number of men needed and enabled decentralisation of technical fire control to autonomous sub-battery fire units such as platoons, troops or sections, although some armies had sometimes done this with their manual methods.

The other long established club in the city ' Os Galitos ' was founded in 1904 and water related sports such as swimming, sailing and rowing are some of its longest traditional strongest specialities, other sections in the club include chess, basketball, snooker, pool and billiards among others, but rowing is the modality in which the club has a maintained a long and proud tradition going back more than one hundred years, reaching the highest possible excellence as a club with several of its individual and team of rowers having represented Portugal Internationally and at the Olympic games with good classifications on more than a just few occasions.

The only survivors of the vicinal / buurtspoor system are the Kusttram ( covering almost the entire coast from France to the Netherlands, being the longest tram line in the world ) and some sections of the Charleroi Pre-metro.

It clearly contains material written at different stages in Clausewitz's intellectual evolution, producing some significant contradictions between different sections, and the sequence and precise character of that evolution is a source of much debate.

" Chocolate Cake ", a humorous comment on American excesses that wasn't taken well by some US critics and sections of the American public, was released in June 1991 as the first single.

The transport ( and smuggling ) of minerals with a high value for weight is also carried out by air, and in the east, some stretches of paved road isolated by destroyed bridges or impassable sections have been turned into airstrips.

Controversy has existed between the two largest denominations of the Latter Day Saint movement over some sections added to the 1876 LDS edition, attributed to founder Smith.

The text sections giving extra information on each diagnosis were updated, as were some of the diagnostic codes to maintain consistency with the ICD.

The DDC is a system of library classification made up of ten classes, each divided into ten divisions, each having ten sections ( although there are only 99 of 100 divisions and 908 of 999 sections in total, as some are no longer in use or have not been assigned ).

In addition, the double bass sections of some orchestras perform as an ensemble, such as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's Wacker Consort.

The Diatessaron was used as the standard Gospel text in the liturgy of at least some sections of the Syrian Church for possibly up to two centuries and was quoted or alluded to by Syrian writers.

The editorial staff help to write the articles of the Micropædia and some sections of the Macropædia.

The following sections lay out examples of some of the types of alegbraic equations you might encounter.

Although elves could be considered to be beautiful and potentially helpful beings in some sections of English-speaking society throughout its history, Old English evidence also attests to alignments of elves with demons, as for example in line 112 of Beowulf.

The main exceptions to this system occur in some Latin American leagues, which divide football championships into two sections named Apertura and Clausura ( Spanish for Opening and Closing ), awarding a champion for each.

Since 2005 they've been allowed to freely display their work along some sections of riverside retaining walls in designated " Graffiti Zones ".

Under some circumstances, and in some technical contexts, transcluded sections of text may not require strict adherence to the " context neutrality " principle, because the transcluded sections are capable of parameterization.

For men, Islam, Orthodox Judaism, Orthodox Christianity, Roman Catholicism and other religious groups have at various times recommended or required the covering of the head and sections of the hair of men, and some have dictates relating to the cutting of men's facial and head hair.

Although some sections of road have been built using private or public-private funds, and are operated as toll roads, they are owned by the Government of Ireland.