The test missed a lot of deadly tumors but found a lot that were harmless and would never have been noticed had it not been for the screening.

First hospital in the world to use robotic surgery for removal of an adrenal carcinoma (an aggressive deadly tumor) and an adrenal mass from a pediatric patient.

A1 Cancer Test Called a Failure Two studies found that a screening test to find a childhood cancer, neuroblastoma, missed deadly tumors while spotting harmless ones.

Scientists said today that they were making significant progress in developing a simple urine test to diagnose bladder cancer, a deadly tumor that can be effectively treated if caught early.

Patients have converged on many radiologists and other doctors who offer the CT scan, hoping to detect potentially deadly tumors as early as possible.

So studying gene patterns could become a way to discriminate between deadly and not-so-deadly tumors, or to predict which drug will work best for a particular patient.

The common notion is that deadly tumors start out benign, meaning that they are unable to spread outside the breast and so are unable to kill.

Except for a pill bottle on the table in front of him, there were no outward signs of the deadly tumors growing inside him.

The rest of us, having identified our tumors ourselves, were sent away by surgeons waving "clear" mammograms while deadly tumors grew and became invasive.

Normally, the gene is thought to work as the shield that blocks the growth of many deadly tumors.