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metastases

(Science: oncology) cancer that started from cancer cells from another part of the body. For example: cancer that starts in the breast can spread to the lymph nodes and then be spread throughout the body.


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Sugar Allergy

... a novel immune-enhancing polysaccharide. Alt Med Rev. 1999;4(2):96-103. 39. Hagmar B, Ryd W, Skomedal H. Arabinogalactan blockade of experimental metastases to liver by murine hepatoma. Invasion Metastasis 1991;11(6):348-55. 40. Vince AJ, McNeil NI, Wager JD, et al, The effect of lactulose. pectin, ...

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by DrDahlman
Sat Jan 12, 2008 4:20 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Sugar Allergy
Replies: 71
Views: 68458

Positron emission Tomography

... USE OF PET SCAN PET is both a medical and research tool. It is used heavily in clinical oncology (medical imaging of tumors and the search for metastases), for clinical diagnosis of brain diseases such as dementias. PET is also an important research tool to map human brain and heart function. ...

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by dipjyoti
Wed Sep 27, 2006 9:57 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Positron emission Tomography
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Views: 398

"Twenty questions"-biology game

it is usually not genetic It mainly affects children. It affects sometimes a part of the body, sometimes it builds metastases throughout the body.

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by Dustfinger
Sun Sep 17, 2006 10:53 am
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: "Twenty questions"-biology game
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Views: 88755

The Fiber Disease

... lesions, and the area of lesional skin was laterally very well demarcated from the healthy skin. As skin lesions were also considered to be a metastases of previous melanoma, a skin biopsy was done. Histologically only a toxic damage of the epidermis with stingy mixed infiltration of the dermis ...

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by Skytroll
Mon Sep 04, 2006 2:02 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: The Fiber Disease
Replies: 7403
Views: 748977


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