1. I know perfectly well that metastases are not just a characteristic of malignant cells, spreading from organ to organ. 2. That is to say, malignant cells that had broken away from the original cancer and begun to reproduce in other parts of the body. 3. A recent report has suggested, however, that malignant cells are frequently disseminated in the peritoneal cavity after percutaneous fine needle aspiration. 4. Alpha-lac, then, may be conducting surveillance missions within the nursing child, rooting out potentially malignant cells and encouraging properly growing cells to mature. 5. Because malignant cells in such tumors are dividing faster, they give anticancer drugs more opportunities to kill them. 6. Blood levels of prostasin were about twice as high in samples of malignant cells from ovarian cancer patients as they were in tissue from healthy women. 7. A biopsy proved one of them to contain malignant cells that had escaped the original breast tumor. 8. Adding to the complexity is that after surgeons remove a prostate, pathologists look at it through a microscope for malignant cells. 9. All patients who use their own marrow relapse, in part because their marrow harbors malignant cells. 10. But in the lab, he said, various cubane derivatives attacked cancer cells by coupling with antibodies that bind to malignant cells. |