Sentences with phrase «aggressive tumor types»

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In 2009 he had been diagnosed with a type of rapidly growing brain tumor called a high - grade astrocytoma that, despite aggressive treatment, eventually evolved into a glioblastoma — the highly malignant brain tumor that also took the lives of Vice President Joe Biden's son, Beau, in 2015 and former Sen. Ted Kennedy in 2009.

Sen. John McCain of Arizona last week revealed he is battling glioblastoma, the most common and aggressive type of malignant brain tumor in adults.

Researchers from the University of Southampton have discovered a potential way of stopping one of the most aggressive types of brain tumor from spreading, which could lead the way to better patient survival.

Glioblastoma is the most aggressive type of tumor that originates in the brain and with no curative treatments currently available, the average survival time for patients ranges from 15 to 18 months.

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.

«New tumor analysis method identifies high - risk prostate cancer: Cancer cells» genetic pathways show which patients are likely to develop aggressive types of the disease.»

Genetically modified «hunter» T cells successfully migrated to and penetrated a deadly type of brain tumor known as glioblastoma (GBM) in a clinical trial of the new therapy, but the cells triggered an immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment and faced a complex mutational landscape that will need to be overcome to better treat this aggressive cancer, Penn Medicine researchers report in a new study this week in Science Translational Medicine.

Answering important clinical questions — such as whether genetic diversity is a risk factor for aggressive tumor development or how it relates to treatment resistance — requires analyzing samples from many patients with different types of cancer.

Previous in vitro studies conducted by researchers in other countries showed that this molecule was able to reduce the multiplication and increase the mortality of cells from melanoma, the most aggressive type of skin cancer, as well as breast cancer and neuroblastoma, a tumor that typically affects patients aged 15 or younger.

But in both cases, tumors can become resistant to treatments — leading to the most challenging and aggressive types of those cancers.

A new study shows coibamide A has potent anti-cancer activity in mice and cell cultures that model brain tumors and triple negative breast cancer, two of the most aggressive and difficult - to - treat types of cancer.

So it's generally a very aggressive type of tumor.

These findings show that MAX acts as a tumor suppressor gene in one of the more aggressive types of lung cancer.

However, aggressive, metastatic tumors can become resistant to this type of therapy.

But the other tumor types may require more aggressive measures to prevent relapse, including chemotherapy and sometimes investigational drugs.

The aggressive basal - type breast cancers often metastasize, seeding new tumors in distant parts of the body.

Mutations in the beta - catenin gene, or flaws in the factors that degrade it, have long been linked to more aggressive disease in various tumor types, including colon, lung and prostate cancer, and melanoma.

LA JOLLA, CA — Scientists have long believed that glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), the most aggressive type of primary brain tumor, begins in glial cells that make up supportive tissue in the brain...

A network of transcription factors may drive different subtypes of aggressive bladder cancer, allowing researchers to turn one type of tumor into another

«We found a strong reduction in the risk of estrogen - receptor - negative [ER --RSB- breast cancer in particular, which is exciting because that type of tumor, while rarer than estrogen - receptor - positive [ER +] tumors, tends to be aggressive.»

May 16, 2018 • An aggressive type of breast cancer — a HER2 - positive tumor — often shrinks with Herceptin treatment, but side effects can be tough.

Systemic symptoms depend on the location and type of tumor, how aggressive it is and whether it has metastasized.

He had a type of skin tumor that can be very aggressive when they adopted him, as well as some significant dental disease.

Canine glioma, an aggressive type of brain tumor, occurs most frequently in brachycephalic breeds (those with a broad, short skulls) such as Boxers and Boston terriers, although the tumors occur in other breeds, as well.