This can be
an aggressive form of cancer so if you see anything unusual, you'll want to make a veterinarian appointment quickly.
Not exact matches
«Our discovery
of these mutations is a first step in developing a genetics - based system for classifying endometriosis
so that clinicians can sort out which
forms of the disorder may need more
aggressive treatment and which may not,» says Ie - Ming Shih, M.D., Ph.D., the Richard W. TeLinde Distinguished Professor in the Department
of Gynecology & Obstetrics at the Johns Hopkins University School
of Medicine and co-director
of the Breast and Ovarian
Cancer Program at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel
Cancer Center.
Immunotherapy is a promising approach in the treatment
of metastatic melanoma, an
aggressive and deadly
form of skin
cancer; but for most patients, immunotherapy drugs
so far have failed to live up to their promise and provide little or no benefit.
Testing indicated that Jolie had a gene variant associated with very
aggressive form of this
cancer,
so she opted for a double mastectomy.
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).