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Interrupting a runaway process There are several small-molecule drugs that show potential for slowing cyst expansion.

This limitation is crucial, he added, because the interior of each cyst -- essentially a sealed chamber lined with epithelial cells -- is the location where disease-driving activity occurs.

"Many of the cyst-lining cells actually make growth factors and they secrete them into the cyst fluid," he explained.

"In the literature there are dozens of growth factors that have been shown to be active in these cyst fluids," Weimbs said.

Dr. Andrea Klemes, MDVIP’s chief medical officer, got a full body scan that turned up a “laundry list” of harmless things, like a cyst in her brain.