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Researchers looked for - and found - a chemical change called DNA methylation in healthy tissue adjacent to breast tumors.

In theory, then, the heat generated by the nanoparticles kills the cancer cells, while not affecting nearby healthy tissue.

New methods and equipment can permit extremely localized treatments that are less likely to damage healthy tissue.

A key challenge in radiotherapy is to maximize radiation doses to cancer cells while minimizing damage to surrounding healthy tissue.

That makes removing the tumor more difficult. A clear border between the cancer and healthy tissue can be difficult to find.

A desmoid tumor is an aggressive soft tissue tumor that often invades and destroys surrounding healthy tissue and organs.

But another type of growth is much more dangerous, and harder to see because it is flat or depressed and similar in color to healthy tissue.

Healthy tissue then grows on and around the material to create a permanent blockage.

Thus, drugs that target critical angiogenesis molecules can cause a wide range of unintended side effects in healthy tissue.

whole breast - radiation therapy targeted the entire breast with large - field radiation , while limiting risk to adjacent healthy tissue.

The challenge in using the idea medically is to kill off the cancer cells while avoiding damage to nearby healthy tissue.

When a person has cirrhosis, scar tissue{fbrosis}replaces healthy tissue and prevents the liver from working as it should.

EGCG is a powerful anti-oxidant: besides inhibiting the growth of cancer cells, it kills cancer cells without harming healthy tissue.

This suggests that fractional irradiation protects the healthy tissue during radiotherapy.

The search for vaccines has been hampered by fears that healthy tissue would be destroyed along with tumours.

In non-invasive breast cancer, cells grow too much but haven't started to invade normal surrounding healthy tissue.

Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease -- one in which the immune system mistakenly attacks healthy tissue.

A clear border between the cancer and healthy tissue can be difficult to find.

Honey also may spur debridement -- the removal of dead tissue around a wound to make way for healthy tissue.

Result: This will help create healthy tissue, protect your teeth, and lubricate the soft tissue.

Surgeons may not have to remove or disrupt as much healthy tissue.

Tumor cells are extremely mobile and "adept" at penetrating healthy tissue to form metastases.

In order to promote teachers' active in school work, to create a harmonious atmosphere to healthy tissue.

Result: You will see healthy tissue after one week.

The cost is that, eventually, even healthy tissue cannot renew itself.

One problem in using heat against cancers is that it can damage surrounding, healthy tissue.

It is very much expressed in prostate cancer cells while the healthy tissue does not show significant amounts.

Marked by or indicating the tone and resiliency of healthy tissue: