Metastases

... sometimes be SO mutated from the primary such that in the strange case of CUP (Cancer of Unknown Primary), it can be very hard to tell from the metastases just what the cell type original was, and therefore where the cancer actually started (2) #1 helps to solidify my contention that my Colon ...

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No - metastases are all mutated forms of the cells of the original tissue from which they derived. Cancer is a single cell lineage. (Unless you're really unlucky and get a second lot of critical, transforming mutations in a ...

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... 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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... 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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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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