Sentences with phrase «other cancers spread»

Other cancers spread quickly (e.g., bone cancer).

Not exact matches

MEG TIRRELL, NIGHTLY BUSINESS REPORT CORRESPONDENT: Since they were approved in 2014, drugs that stimulate the immune system have been giving new hope to patients with melanoma, kidney cancer, lymphoma and other cancers, including famously to President Jimmy Carter, who credited the drug called Keytruda with shrinking tumors that had spread to his brain.

That cancer spreads to every other organ and eventually brings down the body politic.

This could offer a technique to help in the prognosis of metastases, the spreading of cancer cells to other regions of the body, responsible for 90 per cent of deaths from cancer.

Apparently broccoli contains potent nutrients which have the ability to switch «on» genes that prevent cancer development, and switch «off» other ones that help it spread.

When children are not vaccinated, they are at increased risk for diseases and can also spread these diseases to others in their classrooms and community — including babies who are too young to be fully vaccinated, and people with weakened immune systems due to cancer or other health conditions.

When children are not vaccinated, they are at increased risk and can spread diseases to other in their family and community — including babies who are too young to be vaccinated, and people with weakened immune systems due to cancer and other health conditions.

Scientists have uncovered how tumor cells in aggressive uterine cancer can switch disguises and spread so quickly to other parts of the body.

The lab that I work in is primarily interested in understanding how and why certain cancers are more likely to spread to the skeleton, and my personal project has focused on uncovering new mechanisms that the cancer cells use to communicate with other cells in the bone.

Pancreatic cancer is deadly because it tends to spread, or metastasise, to other parts of the body before symptoms appear.

Metastasis is the spread of cancer from its primary site to other places in the body (e.g., brain, liver).

EphA2 spreads cancer by allowing malignant cells to migrate from the primary tumor into circulation and eventually to adhere to other tissues.

«In addition, changes in how the genes are expressed (turned on or off) could be used in the future to predict how and when the cancer cells will spread to other parts of the body and how fast they will grow.»

Most of these deaths were because the cancer had spread to other organ sites.

Other researchers have identified dozens of genes, all related to the growth and spread of cancer, that become over - or undermethylated when the disease gets under way.

«Urologists tend to prefer to forgo adjuvant radiation therapy, because they fear the side effects, and radiation oncologists tend to prefer offering adjuvant radiation therapy because they fear the risk of metastasis [cancer spreading to other sites in the body],» Showalter said.

Dr Claudia Wellbrock, study author and Cancer Research UK scientist at The University of Manchester and a member of the Manchester Cancer Research Centre, said: «We used to think that cancer cells spread by first specialising in invading other parts of the body and then change in order to grow raCancer Research UK scientist at The University of Manchester and a member of the Manchester Cancer Research Centre, said: «We used to think that cancer cells spread by first specialising in invading other parts of the body and then change in order to grow raCancer Research Centre, said: «We used to think that cancer cells spread by first specialising in invading other parts of the body and then change in order to grow racancer cells spread by first specialising in invading other parts of the body and then change in order to grow rapidly.

Avastin, from Genentech, and Erbitux, from ImClone Systems, are the first drugs to reduce tumor growth from colon cancer that has spread to other parts of the body.

In the Cell study, Dr. Massagué, with Fellow Manuel Valiente, PhD, and other team members, found that in mouse models of breast and lung cancer — two tumor types that often spread to the brain — many cancer cells that enter the brain are killed by astrocytes.

The researchers studied triple - negative breast cancer cells, which grow and spread faster than most other types of cancer cells.

«We are looking for novel ways of preventing cancer cells of the primary tumor from spreading to other parts of the body.

Looking to target a key pathway in order to interfere with the processes that lead to tumor spread, a research team led by Irwin H. Gelman, Ph.D., of Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) has identified a new suppressor of cancer metastasis that may point the way toward development of more effective treatments for prostate cancers and other malignant solid tCancer Institute (RPCI) has identified a new suppressor of cancer metastasis that may point the way toward development of more effective treatments for prostate cancers and other malignant solid tcancer metastasis that may point the way toward development of more effective treatments for prostate cancers and other malignant solid tumors.

Targeted cancer treatments are designed to attack molecules produced by mutations, but if the targeted mutation occurs on an evolutionary branch and not the trunk, the treatment will fail as other branches dominate and treatment resistant cells spread.

Men assigned to the active monitoring arm were more likely to see their cancers, initially confined to the prostate gland, spread to other organs and bones.

«The possibility of preventing or slowing down the spread of cancer cells via the lymphatic system is an attractive one, as it could reduce the risk of metastasis to other organs.»

Among other tests, they looked at tissue samples of breast cancer that had spread to the liver, lung and other organs.

The data that the breast cancer cells spread more successfully in clumps are compelling, D'Souza - Schorey said, but no one yet knows whether cells from other types of cancer also need help to migrate.

The current research suggests that pancreatic cancer cells that spread to organs that receive a blood supply rich in glucose and other nutrients, such as the liver and lungs, acquire metabolic adaptations to use these «natural resources» to increase their tumorigenic fitness.

A perennial puzzle for cancer researchers is why some tumors spread to other parts of the body, or metastasize, while others don't.

Because the combination destroys other tumors besides the injected one, it might eliminate metastases, or the secondary tumors that result when cancer spreads, he says.

If, however, physicians spot the disease early — before the cancer spreads to other organs — the five - year survival rate exceeds 90 percent.

Forgoing a test to detect prostate cancer could mean that three times as many men would fail to have the disease detected before it spreads to other organs, according to a paper in Cancer on Jucancer could mean that three times as many men would fail to have the disease detected before it spreads to other organs, according to a paper in Cancer on JuCancer on July 30.

Metastatic pancreatic cancer — cancer that has spread from the pancreas to other tissues and is responsible for most patient deaths — changes its metabolism and is «reprogrammed» for optimal malignancy, according to new findings reported Jan. 16 in Nature Genetics.

Chemotherapy and radiotherapy alone are relatively unsuccessful in treating the disease, and while surgery to remove the tumour offers the best chance of survival, most patients are diagnosed when the cancer has already spread to other organs.

When the scientists inserted human colorectal cancer cells into zebrafish embryos and allowed them to grow for 4 days, the resulting tumors showed three hallmarks of human solid tumors: rapid cell division, formation of blood vessels to supply nutrients, and the ability to spread to other locations in the body.

So PSA is great tool after prostatectomy in terms of predicting recurrence if the level starts to climb up again, indicating that the cancer has spread to other sites in the body.

Other evidence shows that miR - 7 can halt cancer cells that operate like stem cells, turning them into new kinds of tissue before they spread.

Patients with high levels of miR - 194 in their blood could receive more aggressive treatment to reduce the chance of the cancer spreading to other parts of the body.»

Triple - negative tumors are also more likely to spread and recur than other types of breast cancers.

Earlier today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that it was giving the green light to Provenge, a treatment for advanced prostate cancer that has spread to other parts of the body.

In pancreatic cancer, their activity boosts tumor growth and spread, and may also help suppress T cells and other immune elements that would otherwise attack the tumor.

Published in the journal Cancer Research, the discovery has potential to lead to the development of a blood test that could predict whether cancer will spread from the prostate tumour to other parts of theCancer Research, the discovery has potential to lead to the development of a blood test that could predict whether cancer will spread from the prostate tumour to other parts of thecancer will spread from the prostate tumour to other parts of the body.

Steven Curley, associate professor of surgery at the University of Texas Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, has tested the gel on 15 people and is optimistic that it will provide a more effective treatment for liver cancer, including secondary tumours that have spread from other parts of theCancer Center in Houston, has tested the gel on 15 people and is optimistic that it will provide a more effective treatment for liver cancer, including secondary tumours that have spread from other parts of thecancer, including secondary tumours that have spread from other parts of the body.

The first study will examine these patients over time, in order to analyze other important variables such as melanoma relapse, mortality, resistance to treatment, development of a second melanoma or other cancers, and metastasis, including spread of the cancer to nearby lymph nodes (sentinel nodes).

As a result, these blood vessels will be structured more tightly, which can prevent cancer cells from spreading to other organs.

Like pancreatic cancer, cancer of the ovaries is notorious for being discovered at a relatively late stage — after it has spread to other sites in the body.

The primary cause of death from breast cancer is the spread of tumor cells from the breast to other organs in the body.

Thus, a small skin cancer becomes life - threatening by spreading to the brain, lungs, liver, or other organs.

For each of these cancer sites, the researchers calculated important regional and county differences in advanced stage of diagnosis, which takes into account the growth and size of the tumor and whether it has spread to the lymph nodes or other organs.

«But mounting evidence confirming angiotropism and EVMM has revolutionized the knowledge of how cancer spreads through the body to the point that other scientists have confirmed the process in other solid tumor cell types such as pancreatic cancer.»