Sentence examples for malignant secondary from inspiring English sources

Metastatic cells also establish a microenvironment through the release of cytokines and growth factors that facilitate angiogenesis and proliferation, resulting in macroscopic, malignant secondary tumors.

Excluded were all death certificate-only, autopsy, and individual cases with malignant secondary (metastatic to the breast), benign, in situ and uncertain or unknown diagnosis.

Cases were excluded from the analysis if the behaviour of the tumour was classified as benign, uncertain or in situ (<0.5% of the cases registered from 1971 to 2001), leaving malignant primary tumours, and a small number of malignant secondary tumours and tumours not defined as primary or secondary (<4% of cases).

Most peritoneal neoplasms are malignant, and secondary malignancies far exceed primary tumors.

The fact that AT1 is present in high-grade astrocytomas and in patients >47 years of age suggests that AT1 and AT2 could be associated with the progression of malignancy in secondary malignant astrocytomas.

This was a one-way, open-label, pilot study in patients with symptomatic malignant ascites secondary to gastric adenocarcinoma requiring symptomatic therapeutic paracentesis.

A randomized study was performed in patients with symptomatic malignant ascites secondary to EpCAM + carcinomas, to evaluate the efficacy and safety of intraperitoneal administration of catumaxomab [ 16].

22 This led to a pivotal Phase II/III study in patients with symptomatic malignant ascites secondary to epithelial cancers requiring symptomatic therapeutic paracentesis.

34 The identification of a morphologically normal heart is of great importance since studies indicate that more than 50% of such SCDs are caused by malignant arrhythmias secondary to the presence of inherited ion channel disorders, usually affecting the potassium, sodium and calcium ion channels of the myocardial cells, all of which will not be seen morphologically at autopsy.

CT diagnosed no cases with distant metastases from the primary malignancy, but two cases with a secondary malignant disease were found.

Secondary malignant lymphomas were found in 3%% of autopsy cases with pancreatic secondary tumours [9], usually appearing as large and bulky masses.