Sentences with phrase «against multiple cancer»

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While the possible protective effect of smoking against PSC seems rather unique to this particular liver disease, coffee consumption has been shown to protect against multiple other liver conditions including liver cirrhosis and liver cancer — and now for the first time also against PSC.

This gene is known to be highly active in multiple myeloma and many other cancers, raising the possibility that strategies to shut it down could be effective against a variety of tumors.

Whether investigating fat cells, immunotherapy or use of the CRISPR - Cas 9 gene - editing tool, which a federal panel recently approved for a select number of patients suffering from three types of cancers, including multiple myeloma, approaches beyond attacking cancer cells are needed in the fight against many cancers.

Rewinding skin cells back to their origins in the womb could provide a powerful new vaccine against multiple types of cancer.

In the end, a vaccine will probably need to take multiple approaches at once, like combination therapy against cancer, says Jeffery Taubenberger of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

And a growing body of evidence shows that vitamin D may also protect against diseases such as multiple sclerosis, hypertension, depression, and colon, breast and prostate cancers.

Just as the so - called AIDS «cocktail» directs multiple agents against multiple targets, so too might future anti-cancer cocktails be directed at multiple, highly specific targets in known cancer pathways.

iNKT cells give our immune system crucial ammunition in the fight against infections but also against illnesses such as cancer, lupus, and multiple sclerosis.

«We have created a potentially much less expensive approach to making a therapeutic cancer vaccine that, while targeting a single tumor antigen, generates an immune response against multiple antigens.

While too late to help those whose lives were blighted by the drug during pregnancy, this finding could help rehabilitate thalidomide, which is effective against several serious conditions, including multiple myeloma, a form of cancer.

In addition to heart disease, scientists are now investigating the role that fish consumption may have in protecting us against some cancers as well as many chronic diseases including Alzheimer's disease, asthma, depression, diabetes, high blood pressure, macular degeneration, multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis.

Adequate levels also help to protect against osteoporosis; breast, prostate, and colorectal cancers; autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis; and high blood pressure.

It seems to protect against cancer and multiple sclerosis.

CR can lower the prevalence of age - related loss of function and multiple diseases, including tumors, cardiovascular disease, neurodegeneration, and protects against diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular disease, sarcopenia, and neurodegeneration of certain brain regions in rhesus monkeys (31).

Omega - 3 fat protects against multiple forms of cancer, is anti-inflammatory, assists in increasing good cholesterol and lowers bad, decreases the risk of blood clots and heart attacks and because of the incredibly high calcium content in sardines, helps prevent bone loss and improves bone strength.

Extensive studies have shown that vitamin D can help protect against a host of illnesses, including certain cancers, type 1 diabetes, multiple sclerosis and neurodegenerative conditions.

Protection against type 1 diabetes, and protection against cancer, heart disease, high blood pressure, obesity, arthritis and multiple sclerosis.

Avigan and his colleagues have secured funding to perform a larger clinical trial for their leukemia vaccine, and also are conducting a trial for a vaccine against multiple myeloma, another blood cancer.

«Many employers may not be aware that as soon as anyone gets diagnosed as having cancer, HIV or multiple sclerosis then they have the same protection as someone with a disability according to the law, and are automatically protected against discrimination under the Equality Act.