Patients with liver tumors that meet the following may be candidates: The tumor is less than 4 centimeters in size Have three or fewer tumors The tumor is in a favorable location for treatment Talk to ...

“The tumor was sitting on top of MaKenna’s heart and extended into the right lung, impacting all three lobes and the entire main trunk of the pulmonary artery,” said Kalvin Lung, M.D., a ...

"The tumor was sitting on top of MaKenna’s heart and extended into the right lung, impacting all three lobes and the entire main trunk of the pulmonary artery," said Kalvin Lung, M.D., a ...

Eventually, though, when the coughing led to vomiting, doctors performed scans and detected a large, grapefruit-sized tumor in her middle chest cavity and right lung, which was completely blocking the ...

Eventually, though, when the coughing led to vomiting, doctors performed scans and detected a large, grapefruit-sized tumor in her middle chest cavity and right lung, which was completely blocking the ...

A hospital visit revealed the shocking cause: a tumor the size of a grapefruit was blocking the artery to her right lung, leaving both Makenna and her unborn baby dangerously low on oxygen.

A newly released study focused on a cluster of chemoreceptor cells located near the carotid artery in the neck. When overactive, the cells are a predictor of cardiovascular-related conditions and ...

Treatments can be limited in some cases by poor response rates and unmitigated tumor progression. Factors within the tumor microenvironment, including cytokines like GDF-15, are thought to ...

1 Institute of Nephrology, Zhongda Hospital, School of Medicine, Southeast University, Nanjing, China 2 Institute of Nephrology, People’s Hospital of Yangzhong City, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, China ...

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