1.   A year later, when the tumor appeared on a second X-ray, it was diagnosed as incurable.

2.   One tumor appeared to be completely eradicated, the researchers from M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston report in Nature Medicine.

3.   Patients with advanced kidney cancer who received Avastin went about five months before their tumors began growing or new tumors appeared.

4.   Rarely, the mucin-filled tumor appears as a hernia in the groin.

5.   When new tumors appeared on his pelvis and lower abdomen a few months later, his oncologists told him to resign himself to death.

6.   But it can be years before any new tumors appear, and doctors have been unable to say for sure who needed aggressive treatment.

7.   But PSA can be detected years before new tumors actually appear.

8.   Doctors said the three-hour surgery went smoothly and that the tumor did not appear to have spread.