Sentences with phrase «if cancer markers»

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PD - L1 is often used as a marker to indicate if a cancer might be responsive to immunotherapy, and usually the higher the PD - L1 level, the more responsive a cancer would be to certain immunotherapies.

They found that women were five times as likely to develop cancer if they had a higher percentage of Ki67, a molecular marker that identifies proliferating cells, in the cells that line the mammary ducts and milk - producing lobules.

«If the CD117 cell population does lead to tumor initiation or cancer reoccurrence, this cell marker could become a therapeutic target,» she says.

Comparing the markers on these stem cells with those on the surfaces of cancer cells, Johnson adds, will also help scientists determine if stem cells contribute to prostate malignancies.

This means that, in the future, these particular cells could potentially be used as a marker to monitor prostate cancer patients and predict if the disease is going to spread — alongside other monitoring techniques.

12/8/2008 Interactive Gene «Networks» May Predict if Leukemia is Aggressive or Slow - Growing Rather than testing for individual marker genes or proteins, researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego) and the Moores UCSD Cancer Center have evidence that groups, or networks, of interactive genes may be more reliable in... More...

It remains to be determined if these genes are markers of in utero estrogen exposure in breast cancer patients.

We can envision that DAXX can serve as a precise prognostic marker in PCa and that tissue - specific shRNA delivery targeted against DAXX can be employed in the treatment of metastatic prostate cancer in patients, in particular if we discover, through additional studies, that DAXX is a marker for lethal PCa in humans.

«PTEN is a genomic marker we already routinely measure, and based on published data we wanted to know if we could use it to predict which BRCA1 / 2 mutated tumors are likely to respond to checkpoint inhibitors and which are not,» said the study's senior author Katherine L. Nathanson, MD, deputy director of the Abramson Cancer Center and director of Genetics at the Basser Center for BRCA.

Considering that the hs - CRP inflammation marker is associated with risk of diseases such as cancer, dementia, cardiovascular disease, and many other chronic diseases, «if you have to take one test, this might be the one.»

If an oncologist does a blood test for prostate cancer, he looks for a tumor marker called prostate specific antigen or PSA.

The good news is that if markers for these tubal cells can be found, then blood tests, advanced Pap smears, or direct tests on tubal tissue might spot ovarian cancer earlier, the study authors said.

(For example, if you have had genetic testing and show the genetic marker for predisposition for breast cancer, your employer can not use that in making employment decisions.)