Cancer is a major cause of global mortality, both in affluent countries and increasingly in developing nations. Many patients with cancer experience reduced life expectancy and have metastatic disease at the time of death. However, the more precise cause
Malignant tumors, on the other hand, often grow aggressively locally where they start, but tumor cells also can enter the bloodstream or lymphatic system and then spread to other sites in the body. This process of spread is termed metastasis; the areas of tumor growth at these distant sites ...
The lung also is a very common site for metastasis from malignant tumors in other parts of the body. The same types of cells as the original (primary) tumor make up tumor metastases. For example, ifprostate cancerspreads via the bloodstream to the lungs, it is metastatic prostate cancerin ...
Cancer is a major cause of global mortality, both in affluent countries and increasingly in developing nations. Many patients with cancer experience reduced life expectancy and have metastatic disease at the time of death. However, the more precise cause
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This treatment uses strong medicines that travel through the bloodstream to kill cancer cells all over the body. Because small-cell lung cancer tends to spread widely, it is typically treated with combination chemotherapy (the use of more than one drug), often along with radiation therapy. For ...
Breast cancer develops when breast cells start to grow and divide abnormally, creating a tumour that may expand to other body parts by encroaching on adjacent tissues through the lymphatic system or bloodstreamTrastuzumab, a monoclonal antibody, is the treatment of choice ...
One reason cancer leads to cachexia is that the disease causes your immune system to release certain chemicals called cytokines into your bloodstream. These chemical messengers cause inflammation that leads to muscle and fat loss. Cytokines also speed up your metabolism, making you burn calories faste...
other pollutant particles and bacteria from the environment [97]. If this silent cleaning function is blocked, a localized inflammatory reaction in the lungs may develop on pollutant particles and bacteria, or the pollutant may enter the bloodstream and lead to systemic inflammation up to sepsis, ...
(NP) has nearly identical physical and chemical properties for controlledbiodistribution, bioelimination and contrast effects. Whennanoparticlesare administered in the bloodstream, their size and surface properties favor extravasation through leaky vasculature, followed by deep penetration and retention at the...