Sentences with phrase «about new therapeutic approaches»

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A new therapeutic approach tested by a team from Maisonneuve - Rosemont Hospital (CIUSSS - EST, Montreal) and the University of Montreal gives promising results for the treatment of multiple myeloma, a cancer of the bone marrow currently considered incurable with conventional chemotherapy and for which the average life expectancy is about 6 or 7 years.

The project has the potential to provide important new information about mechanisms of drug resistance in melanoma - a key medical problem - as well as to evaluate the potential of splicing inhibitors as a therapeutic approach in two groups of melanoma pts with different response kinetics.

Currently, Vogelstein is focusing on new, minimally invasive techniques for the early diagnosis of cancer based on his previous findings, and therapeutic approaches that apply what researchers now know about cancer biology.

«We expect that the knowledge about genetic variants that underlie Mendelian disorders will facilitate rapid and accurate diagnosis and might lead to new therapeutic approaches,» said Lu Wang, Ph.D., NHGRI program director for the Mendelian Disorders Genome Centers Program.