islet cell

基本解釋

Objective:To explore the diagnosis and treatment of nonfunctioning islet cell tumors.
目的：探討非功能性胰島細胞瘤的診斷和治療方法。
First, Jobs's neuroendocrine tumor, also called an islet cell tumor, put him outside the 95 percent of pancreatic cancer victims who have highly fatal adenocarcinoma.
首先，喬布斯患有神經(jīng)內(nèi)分泌腫瘤，也被稱為胰島細胞瘤，不是95%高致病性的胰腺癌。
In an e-mail message to Apple employees, Mr. Jobs explained that his cancer, called an islet cell neuroendocrine tumor, was discovered in time and was successfully removed.
在一封發(fā)給蘋果員工的email中，喬布斯公布了他的病情：一個胰島細胞瘤被及時發(fā)現(xiàn)并成功移除。

Islet cell cancer tends to spread to the surrounding lymph nodes, stomach, small intestine and liver.
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When malignant, islet cell cancers do not generally respond well to chemotherapy, and the treatment is mainly palliative.
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But Jobs suffered from a rarer and less fatal form of the disease, called islet cell pancreatic cancer.
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