Sentences with phrase «as cancer doctors»

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Doctors in Edinburgh are developing a service to store testicular tissue from boys as young as one to help those at risk of infertility after cancer treatment.

Seventy - seven percent of respondents would forego a home assessment with a robotic smart kit to go see a real live doctor — good news for those in the health field, since A.I. can already detect issues like skin cancer as well as a dermatologist can.

Cancer doctors in the US say even as little as one glass a day of an alcoholic drink can contribute to your risk of developing cCancer doctors in the US say even as little as one glass a day of an alcoholic drink can contribute to your risk of developing cancercancer.

Instead of giving a cancer patient a cocktail of 15 drugs as is done now, doctors could print 15 tumours from a biopsy and determine which one is most effective before issuing a prescription to the patient.

A doctor exams mammograms, a special type of X-ray of the breasts, which is used to detect tumours as part of a regular cancer prevention medical check - up at a clinic in Nice, south eastern France January 4, 2008.

Publishing a commentary about Bitcoin by an institutional economics professor is as responsible as letting a village witch doctor give lectures on the merits of proton radiation therapy to treat cancer («The Bitcoin myth,» March 3).

That as a society we are okay with the idea that you can't purchase a television, we're okay with the idea that you can't purchase a nice couch, but we're not okay with the idea on some fundamental level that you get cancer and you can't pay for care, or even lower than that, that you break your leg and you can't get it put in a cast by a reputable doctor.

But they can still embrace the maxim to love sinners while hating sins, and to justify hating sins precisely by loving sinners, as doctors hate cancers because they love patients.

The essay «God as Monica's Breast» is worth the price of the volume, and the «Consenting to Die» essay, which discusses suicide and death as something to do» rather than just wait for, breaks into a fictional discussion between a doctor and a cancer patient.

After many tests the doctors were just sure she had cancer and would need to have the tumor removed & probably have treatments, etc as a result.

Those first weeks after the diagnosis were consumed by assessments, tests, and scans as the doctors searched to understand my cancer.

I don't suppose the Doctors on our Cancer Team read my blog much, busy as they are with saving lives, but you do.

Women dealing with serious health issues, such as cancer, will have the added benefit of having someone from an oncology, breast center unit as part of the birthing team of doctors.

Discuss with your doctor when to begin breast cancer screening exams and tests, such as clinical breast exams and mammograms.

Seward in a statement released by his office said he will be «briefly absent» from his Senate duties as a result, but doctors caught the cancer in its earliest stages.

The government alleges Silver funneled money from that fund for grants to an asbestos cancer research doctor, in return for referrals to the law firm of Weitz & Luxenberg, where Silver had long served as of counsel.

The doctor at the center of the corruption charges against former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver «disapproved» of him and his law firm and referred cancer patients there only as long...

As a matter of urgency, we need to train more healthcare professional (doctors, nurses, and pharmacist) in paediatric oncology, expand treatment access to at least three others centres (Tamale, Cape Coast and Volta regions); and equip these facilities with good Labourites to be able to detect both solid and blood cancers.

The doctor at the center of the Silver scandal «disapproved» of him and his law firm and referred cancer patients there only as long as the former speaker was funneling him state money for research, the court papers claim.

Prosecutors on Tuesday showed the jury emails from Taub that suggested the then - Columbia University cancer doctor secretly disdained Silver and his law firm as part of a dog - eat - dog crowd that merely sought to get rich off mesothelioma, a rare form of cancer caused by exposure to asbestos.

Arizona Sen. John McCain says doctors have given him a «very poor prognosis» as he battles brain cancer.

The feds say Columbia University cancer doctor Robert Taub steered patients to Silver as part of an illegal quid pro quo in which Silver funneled Taub $ 500,000 in taxpayer - funded research grants.

The doctor at the center of the corruption charges against former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver «disapproved» of him and his law firm and referred cancer patients there only as long as Silver was funneling him state money for research, new court papers claim.

They showed both approaches led to similar cancer control as well as similar side effects — as measured by doctors and as reported by patients themselves.

«As an organization of cancer doctors, ASCO continues to endorse HPV vaccination programs and efforts to help spare more women around the world from this very difficult cancer.»

The identification of the cancer cell of origin has important clinical implications, as it enables doctors to detect malignancies earlier and predict tumor behavior more accurately.

As the doctor examines the patient, the odds of a cancer diagnosis may go up or down.

As Dr. Nikiforov's group added more genetic sequences to the ThyroSeq test to create a larger and more sensitive version of the test, it is now also performing as a «rule - out» test that can tell doctors with a high degree of certainty that a patient does not have canceAs Dr. Nikiforov's group added more genetic sequences to the ThyroSeq test to create a larger and more sensitive version of the test, it is now also performing as a «rule - out» test that can tell doctors with a high degree of certainty that a patient does not have canceas a «rule - out» test that can tell doctors with a high degree of certainty that a patient does not have cancer.

The results, if confirmed, could enable doctors to better prevent those ills for which the lonely are at greater risk, such as heart disease, infection, age - related dementia, and certain types of cancer.

If ponatinib had been cleared under the proposed new scheme, however, several cancer doctors worry that the deleterious impacts may not have been picked up as quickly.

Doctors such as Holmes and Balducci, who treat a lot of elderly patients, generally agree that chronological age alone is a poor indicator of how someone will respond to cancer treatment.

«These findings will probably be surprising to many doctors and patients alike, as BMI is the current standard method to assess the risks for diseases related to body weight,» said Andrew Dannenberg, MD, associate director of Cancer Prevention at the Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center of Weill Cornell Medicine.

The team is now working with doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital, who hope to use the new, noninvasive technique to study cells involved in cancer, asthma, and other conditions in which cell properties change as a disease progresses.

In more than two decades as a doctor, I've diagnosed more than 1,000 patients with pancreatic cancer, and giving this kind of news is never easy.

Cardio - oncology is a relatively new field of research, emerging as scientists and doctors understand the connections between cancer treatment and the heart.

«If you are a young woman who was treated with radiation therapy to your chest as a teenager or child for HL, or for that matter chest radiation therapy for any reason, you should be having a conversation with your family doctor or your oncologist about whether to start breast cancer screening earlier than most women would,» says Dr. Hodgson.

Doctors often recommend radiation when these cancers appear in areas such as near the eyes, ears, nose or lips, or in patients on blood thinners or with other health problems that rule out surgery.

Oregon State University scientists have developed a nanomedicine platform for cancer that can help doctors know which tissue to cut out as well as kill any malignant cells that can't be surgically removed.

Meanwhile, doctors have had a muddy sense of whether HIV - positive people with Hodgkin lymphoma survive the cancer as well as people who are HIV - negative.

Tumors (circled areas above) naturally attract stem cells, so doctors decided to use those cells as delivery systems for cancer - fighting agents.

In July, 14 doctors from the islands signed an open letter claiming that leukaemias, cancers and fish poisoning had increased among the 18 000 residents as a result of nuclear contamination.

A man whom his doctors referred to as «Mr. Wright» was dying from cancer of the lymph nodes.

«This is really an important finding, because before patients and their doctors decide to pursue active surveillance as a management option for prostate cancer, both the physician and patient should agree on a follow - up schedule to closely monitor the cancer,» said Chamie, who is surgical director of UCLA's bladder cancer program and a member of the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Ccancer, both the physician and patient should agree on a follow - up schedule to closely monitor the cancer,» said Chamie, who is surgical director of UCLA's bladder cancer program and a member of the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Ccancer,» said Chamie, who is surgical director of UCLA's bladder cancer program and a member of the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Ccancer program and a member of the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer CCancer Center.

Her dissertation looked at whether variants in the PSA gene — that is, the gene that codes for the PSA (prostate specific antigen) protein doctors use as a screen for the existence or recurrence of prostate cancer — had any influence on developing the cancer.

As new scientific discoveries deepen our understanding of how cancer develops in children, doctors and other healthcare providers face challenges in better using that knowledge to guide treatment and counsel families and patients.

New Brunswick, N.J. — A number of chief physicians at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, the state's only National Cancer Institute - designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, are being honored as a «Jersey Choice Top Doctor» by New Jersey Monthly magazine.

The researchers looked at several factors that might explain this racial difference, such as whether there were differences in tumor characteristics between black patients and white patients, or differences in a family history of breast cancer — both factors that a doctor must consider before deciding whether a genetic test will likely benefit a particular patient.

Research into the genes that control how breast cancer responds to treatment will help doctors provide patients with the most effective treatment for their tumour as early as possible, increasing their chance of survival.

As the researchers put it: «Our study demonstrates that the disparity in testing is not explained by differences in the doctors that black and white women see for their cancer treatment.

In this 2011 photo, a doctor watches an internal video of the patient's body as he assists in prostate cancer surgery at the University of Chicago Medical Center.