Sentences with phrase «aggressive malignancies»

At the Maharaj Institute, our team has been treating blood cancers with evidence - based chemotherapy regimens on a totally outpatient basis; a shift in the care of these aggressive malignancies, which normally is done at the hospital.

Young people with body mass indexes (BMIs) over 30 are more likely to experience aggressive malignancies, says author Nathan A. Berger, MD, Hanna - Payne Professor of Experimental Medicine; director of the Center for Science, Health and Society; member of the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center; and professor of medicine, biochemistry, oncology and genetics at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.

For most patients — including actor Patrick Swayze, who died this week as a result of this aggressive malignancy — abdominal pain, weight loss and jaundice are the disease's first indicators, and their onset usually occurs after the cancer has metastasized, erasing any possible benefit of surgery.

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This is especially true for multifocal prostate cancer, less aggressive tumors, and cases of prostatitis or prior prostate irradiation, where MRI alone may not give the correct localization and malignancy grade.»

This time, scientists at the Harvard School of Public Health wanted to investigate whether vitamin D might affect the success of a standard treatment for an especially aggressive and lethal malignancy.