Epithelial tumors, also referred to as carcinomas, account for approximately 85% of all cancers, including the ten most prevalent cancers in the western world, such as breast, colorectal, lung, ovary, prostate and skin. ❋ Unknown (2010)
In contrast, the more common types of tumors known as carcinomas occur in tissue with glands. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Jan 08, 2009 | not rated yet | no comments yet Molecules of sugar sitting on the surface of cancer cells are keys to the development of a new vaccine aimed at both treating and stopping the spread of certain types of cancers called carcinomas, which include prostate, ... ❋ Unknown (2009)
Studies of people with sun damage such as actinic keratoses (precancerous changes) or skin cancers called carcinomas, who took daily vitamin A for five years, had a significantly lower chance of developing a new case of one type of carcinoma. ❋ Unknown (2009)
My fair Scottish heritage skin was burned to blisters many times in a beachside childhood and my father has had many carcinomas removed, his mahogany tanned lifesaver brother died of skin cancer. ❋ Another Outspoken Female (2009)
The biopsies also included material from nasopharyngeal carcinomas, where serological assays also suggested an involvement of EBV infections. ❋ Unknown (2009)
They found that when skin cancer occurred on one side of the body, 52% of melanoma cases and 53% of merkel cell carcinomas were on the left side. ❋ Unknown (2011)
The company's drug OncoVex is in late-stage testing as a treatment for metastatic melanoma, the most aggressive type of skin cancer, and squamous cell carcinomas of the head and neck. ❋ AP (2011)
I told him that both my father and sister had basil cell carcinomas. ❋ Unknown (2009)
In addition to early squamous cell carcinomas — a cancer that's usually curable — he has been treated for half a dozen of these precancers, called actinic keratoses. ❋ Unknown (2011)
During the previous years I had studied a large number of anecdotal reports describing malignant conversion of genital warts into squamous cell carcinomas. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The COX-2 inhibitor celecoxib brand name Celebrex led to a 62 percent reduction in non-melanoma skin cancers, which includes basal cell carcinomas and squamous cell carcinomas. ❋ Unknown (2011)
In the dystopia of "Chest," the consumptive painter Simon-Arthur imagines being trapped inside a giant cancerous lung, in which "the carcinomas took on the faces of people [he] had known, people he had not done right by." ❋ Unknown (2010)
Basal cell carcinomas like Ms. Landsberg's develop in about a million people a year, often on sun-exposed areas of the face and head. ❋ Laura Landro (2011)
We are studying the growth of adenomas, carcinomas, and metastasis, using a mathematical model where every new driver mutation enhances the growth rate of the tumor. ❋ Martin A. Nowak (2011)
In nasopharyngeal carcinomas, composed of a mixture of epithelial tumour cells and lymphocytic infiltrates, it was intensively discussed whether the EBV DNA might rest in the lymphocytic infiltrates. ❋ Unknown (2009)
