0 a disease causing abnormal cell growth -- kreft [ masculine ]
1 the fourth sign of the Zodiac, represented by a crab, for people born between 22 June and 23 July -- steinbukken
2 (also Cancerian) someone who was born between 22 June and 23 July -- steinbukk
4 the (often fatal) condition caused by such diseased growth(s) -- kreft
He is dying of cancer.
Signalling pathways involved in normal bone remodelling and osteoclastic bone resorption are utilised by metastatic breast cancer cells to promote growth in bone.
These issues have perhaps been best studied in cancer.
In some cases these cancers are so rare that useful trials present enormous challenges.
However, it is uncertain how large a percentage of the patients with early bladder cancer received such treatment.
Unlike many other types of cancers, only a small fraction of prostate cancer cases are aggressive and life-threatening.
The ability to direct therapy to specific molecular targets on cancer cells provides several advantages over standard chemotherapy, including higher specificity and reduced systemic toxicity.
The reasons for the dominance of kinase (and other enzyme) inhibitors as targets for modern cancer therapeutics are centred on the enzyme substrate-binding site.
One-time expenditure on screening could be substantially offset by savings in treating cancer cases in the long-term.
