islet cell

基本解释

Objective:To explore the diagnosis and treatment of nonfunctioning islet cell tumors.
目的：探讨非功能性胰岛细胞瘤的诊断和治疗方法。
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，乔布斯患有神经内分泌肿瘤，也被称为胰岛细胞瘤，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.
在一封发给苹果员工的email中，乔布斯公布了他的病情：一个胰岛细胞瘤被及时发现并成功移除。

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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