Many types of tumour produce far more EGFR than normal cells do, and one effect of that is to stimulate the proliferation of tumour cells.
The team then showed in mice that stopping both the production and activity of CAMKK2 using sto 609, blocked the spread of prostate cancer cells and reduced the tumour size.
A cancer is a malignant tumour.
"Breast cancer :Malignant tumour in a Breast, usually in women after menopause."
When one pupil is smaller than the other, perhaps with a drooping eyelid, it could be Horner's syndrome, a condition caused when a lung tumour begins eating into the nerves in the neck.
It can also show whether tumour cells have crept onto nerve fibres, something that is now left to a biopsy or a surgeon's best guess.
The surgeon cut away the tumour with expert skill.
Ovarian cancer is a malignant tumour in the ovary.
I don't want a malignant tumour in my breast, thank you.
These suggested that the ovarian tumour was benign, and that the mummy also had malaria and signs of inflammation in the lungs, which could have been caused by pneumonia or tuberculosis.
Yet in most cases of cancer doctors still base their treatment on where in the body a tumour has sprung up, rather than on which molecular aberrations have caused it.
