This week, a team at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) publishes encouraging results of a pilot study testing a new way of pinpointing the minority who have
aggressive disease at the time of diagnosis, a fact that usually determines whether they will have surgery or not.
«These findings raise the possibility that by determining the gene expression profile of a patient's tumor, physicians may be able to identify
aggressive disease at the outset of diagnosis and start treatment earlier,» said Sungyong You, PhD, an instructor in the Cedars - Sinai Department of Surgery and the first author of the study.
Not exact matches
Mothers of 66 children who had celiac
disease but didn't know it yet reported more child anxiety and depression, withdrawn behavior,
aggressive behavior, and sleep problems when compared to the more than 3,651 mothers of children who did not have celiac
disease at all.
Researchers
at the Universities of Bristol and Oxford found that testing asymptomatic men with PSA detects some
disease that would be unlikely to cause any harm but also misses some
aggressive and lethal prostate cancers.
«Because the
disease is so
aggressive, patients may receive no treatment
at all or if they are given an option it will be for just one line of treatment, so it's essential that the most suitable treatment is identified quickly.
A new,
aggressive strain of yellow rust, a fungal
disease of wheat, is waiting in the wings, and east Africa isn't the only region
at risk.
Women with the variant were
at much higher risk for cancer, had more recurrences, were often hit with multiple cancers and were more likely to die from
aggressive forms of these
diseases.
Scientists
at Cedars - Sinai have developed a new way to identify which prostate cancer patients are likely to develop
aggressive types of the
disease even if their tumors
at first appear to be lower risk.
This choice is challenging, because medical science can not reliably identify those men who are
at risk for developing
aggressive disease and may benefit from active treatment.
Study coauthor Ronald Levy, an oncologist
at the Stanford University School of Medicine, says that physicians generally take their cues from the
disease, waiting to see how fast it is moving — and treating it with toxic chemotherapy (sometimes with radiation) only if it becomes
aggressive.
Most people with Alzheimer's
disease and other memory - affecting conditions also get
aggressive, agitated, depressed, anxious, or delusional from time to time, says senior author Helen C. Kales, M.D., head of the U-M Program for Positive Aging and Geriatric Psychiatry
at the University of Michigan Health System and investigator
at the VA Center for Clinical Management Research.
Seventy - five percent of these cases are classified as high grade serous type, and they show more advanced
disease at diagnosis and are more
aggressive.
Given the role of Msi in promoting
aggressive disease, the investigators partnered with Robert MacLeod PhD, vice-president of oncology drug discovery
at Ionis Pharmaceuticals, to develop next - generation antisense oligonucleotide (ASO) inhibitors against Msi.
Rather than the body's immune system destroying its own tissue by mistake, researchers
at the University of Bristol have discovered how cells convert from being
aggressive to actually protecting against
disease.
In the era of personalized cancer therapy, patients with TNBC remain
at considerably higher risk of relapse and death than patients with other breast cancer subtypes, due to the
aggressive nature of TNBC and the lack of newer targeted therapies for the
disease.
«Prostate cancer can often be an indolent
disease, where a patient may only require surveillance rather than
aggressive surgery,» noted co-author Christopher J. Kane, MD, professor of urology
at UC San Diego.
As this variant also appears to be associated with the development of more
aggressive prostate tumors, a diagnostic test for the variant may enable doctors to make more informed decisions as to how closely they should monitor those who are
at high risk, and how aggressively they should treat the
disease once it presents.
The research ideas you develop
at the workshop should: • Lead to the significant advancement of our understanding of sensor technologies suitable for liquid biopsy • Consider the practical challenges of low volume liquid usually taken for analysis and the inconsistency of sample preparation across point of care sites • Prioritise biomarkers with high specificity for cancer or even for multiple cancer types, including markers specific to cancers that will become
aggressive as opposed to non-lethal
disease
Men with BRCA1 / 2 mutations who develop prostate cancer tend to develop these cancers
at an earlier age than average and may develop more
aggressive forms of the
disease.
Men with these mutations are more likely than non-carriers to contract
aggressive, lethal prostate cancer, to be diagnosed
at a more advanced stage and to ultimately die of the
disease, researchers say.
Carriers of germline mutations in BRCA2 have
at least five times greater risk of prostate cancer and frequently develop a more
aggressive form of the
disease.
I think we all agree that we over treat prostate cancer in this country compared to what you see in Europe with similar outcomes and so but I think this is where the human or the Cancer Genome Project or
at least better biomarkers for looking
at mutations that we already know occur in these
diseases I think hopefully within the next few years every single patient who is diagnosed with prostate cancer those biopsies will be characterized and then the patients followed, hopefully watchful waiting and we'll ultimately get a correlation between what mutational events predict a rather dormant
disease as opposed to a very
aggressive disease.
While men with the more
aggressive form of the cancer make up about 5 % of the 180,000 to 200,000 cases of prostate cancer in the U.S. each year, and only 12 % will have these mutations, that population is still
at considerably higher risk of developing advanced
disease.
«Studies show that people who are low in vitamin D are
at greater risk of developing MS, as well as having more frequent relapses and a more
aggressive progression of the
disease,» Kalb says.
And a study released in March 2008 by researchers
at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston showed that obese and overweight women also had lower breast cancer survival rates and a greater chance of more
aggressive disease than average - weight or underweight women.
«Now rheumatologists are more
aggressive at treating the
diseases — because we can be,» he says.
One reason may be that men in the study seemed to develop Alzheimer's
at a younger age than women and had a more
aggressive form of the
disease.
The tumors are very
aggressive and metastatic, so it is a fair assumption that
at the time of diagnosis the
disease will have already spread beyond the primary site.
For the safety of your pet and other guests
at Pet Paradise, we do not accept pets in heat, pets that have been coughing within the last week, pets that have open wounds or stitches, pets that are recovering from surgery, pets that have contagious
diseases, or pets who are people -
aggressive.
Transmitted primarily via bite wounds, free - roaming
aggressive cats are
at highest risk for this
disease.
It soon became obvious that only the very old, very ill, severely injured, or
aggressive dogs were to be euthanized
at the SPCA and that no animals would die for lack of space or because they had treatable
diseases or behavior problems.
Add in injuries, parasites, infections and such and assume that every dog you take in is a potential vector for the spread of
diseases into any new home, and
at risk of medical meltdown or will get
aggressive to defend itself.
But that is not an \ «unpredictable \» trait, & they are not human
aggressive at all, unless there is something wrong with them (abuse, training, or
disease / ailment.)
Rabid dogs in local communities are killed as soon as they're identified, but not all rabid dogs exhibit the classic frothing
at the mouth and
aggressive behavior that are the obvious signs of the
disease.
Children growing up in such
aggressive families may believe that family aggression is acceptable and thus become more likely to behave in
aggressive or harmful ways toward others.12 13 On the other hand, neglectful parents tend to show minimal physical affection towards their children, know little about child development and have incompetent caretaking skills14 which can put their children
at a higher risk for obesity and other
diseases.