Sentences with phrase «aggressive cancer called»

One Health is seeking dogs who have been diagnosed with an aggressive cancer called Hemangiosarcoma.

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Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis has made waves with a drug pipeline that includes one of the most talked - about experimental cancer therapies in recent years — a treatment called Kymriah that reconfigures the body's own immune cells to become aggressive blood - cancer killers.

giant Novartis has made waves with a drug pipeline that includes one of the most talked - about experimental cancer therapies in recent years — a treatment called Kymriah that reconfigures the body's own immune cells to become aggressive blood - cancer killers.

Medical opinion also varies on how the kind of breast cancer Lee had, a noninvasive form called ductal carcinoma in situ, should be treated, but Lee is adamant about early mammograms and aggressive treatment.

Several studies have supported a role for cancer stem cells in the aggressive brain tumors called glioblastoma, but those studies involved inducing human tumors to grow in mice, and as such their relevance to cancer in humans has been questioned.

«We have identified a code of «molecular switches» that control a very aggressive subpopulation of brain cancer cells, so - called glioblastoma stem cells,» says Mario Suvà, MD, PhD, of the MGH Department of Pathology and Center for Cancer Research, co-lead author of the Cell arcancer cells, so - called glioblastoma stem cells,» says Mario Suvà, MD, PhD, of the MGH Department of Pathology and Center for Cancer Research, co-lead author of the Cell arCancer Research, co-lead author of the Cell article.

Researchers in China have discovered that a metabolic enzyme called AKR1B1 drives an aggressive type of breast cancer.

But although the drug, called finasteride, caused a 25 % reduction in prostate cancer, it also boosted the risk of aggressive prostate cancer among those diagnosed with the disease.

Recent studies have shown an increase in women with breast cancer choosing this more aggressive surgery, called contralateral prophylactic mastectomy, which raises the question of potential overtreatment among these patients.

Importantly, elevated BRCA1 methylation was confined to patients diagnosed with so - called high - grade serous tumors, the most aggressive variant of ovarian cancer, which also is the variant associated with BRCA1 mutations.

Denmeade says the combination of drugs that block testosterone production and receptors, called androgen deprivation therapy, may make prostate cancer more aggressive over time by enabling prostate cancer cells to subvert attempts to block testosterone receptors.

The study showed that one of the three subtypes of prostate cancer the researchers identified, which they called PCS1, was generally aggressive.

The panel also called for «aggressive research» on using RU486 and other drugs in the antiprogrestin class as contraceptives and as treat - ment for endometriosis, uter - ine fibroids, advanced breast cancer and meningioma brain tumours.

In a major breakthrough for ovarian and uterine cancers, Yale researchers have defined the genetic landscape of rare, highly aggressive tumors called carcinosarcomas (CSs), pointing the way to possible new treatments.

Last night Sen. John McCain's office announced the maverick politician had been diagnosed with a type of aggressive brain cancer called glioblastoma.

A research team led by Christine Brown, Ph.D., and a clinical team headed by Behnam Badie, M.D., has received a $ 12.8 million grant from the CIRM to fund a phase 1 chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell trial targeting an aggressive brain cancer called malignant glioma, which includes glioblastoma.

Study looked at genetics of a very aggressive brain cancer found primarily in children called medulloblastoma.

The CRISPR - Cas9 genome editing system could help fight cancer, and now, researchers have used the tool to target what they call cancer's command center, in a treatment that's been shown in mice to shrink aggressive tumors and increase survival rates, without harming healthy cells.

A New Twist in Breast Cancer Working with mice, scientists have shown that a protein made by a gene called TWIST may be the proverbial red flag that can accurately distinguish cells that drive aggressive, metastatic breast cancer from other breast cancer Cancer Working with mice, scientists have shown that a protein made by a gene called TWIST may be the proverbial red flag that can accurately distinguish cells that drive aggressive, metastatic breast cancer from other breast cancer cancer from other breast cancer cancer cells.

B - cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B - ALL) is an aggressive cancer that originates from a type of white blood cell called the B lymphocyte.

Researchers led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists have worked out how a crucial cancer - related protein, a «histone writer» called Ezh2, plays a role in suppressing as well as driving the most aggressive form of the brain tumor medulloblastoma.

Capecchi recently used this approach to solve a biological mystery about a rare, aggressive childhood cancer called synovial sarcoma.

Many women are «triple negative» No one yet knows precisely why, but African - American women are roughly twice as likely as white women to have triple - negative breast cancer — so called because tumor cells in this particularly aggressive form of the disease test negative for estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR), and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER - 2).

The task force also calls for more research in this area, including ongoing studies looking at the potential for MRI and genetic testing to better detect aggressive prostate cancers, Krist added.

Dog bone cancer, also called osteosarcoma, is a very serious condition that can be fatal.Osteosarcoma is very aggressive.

Chemodectomas have historically been thought of as being relatively benign (i.e., not very aggressive cancers that typically grow slowly and do not spread), but some of these cancers will spread to other parts of the body (e.g., lungs and lymph nodes) through a process called metastasis.