Sentences with phrase «as leukemia»

These benefits have even been shown to carry into cancers such as leukemia.

The virus can also cause the blood cancer known as leukemia, but that's much less common.

They argue that estrogen might have potential for treating blood diseases such as leukemia and anemia.

That's when the incoming T cells also attack tissues in the patients as well as their leukemia cells.

They include three patients who were exposed to Chernobyl radiation and 11 patients who received therapeutic radiation for such conditions as leukemia, medulloblastoma tumors and fungal infections of the scalp.

Late last year, even as his leukemia worsened, Walsh, who twice coached Stanford (1977 — 78 and» 92 — 94), remained active in the Cardinal's search.

Likewise, the American Medical Association endorses donations to a public bank, unless there's a known medical reason a family member might need the umbilical cord cells, such as a leukemia diagnosis for an older child.

Most of the work was clinical, such as leukemia diagnostics and blood work for transplants.

Cancers of the lung, prostate, and pancreas, as well as leukemia, also exhibit BRCA deficiencies.

This procedure is notably more challenging than suturing ovarian tissue onto existing live tissue, but it addresses a critical medical need: Ovarian tissue can harbor cancer cells, particularly if the patient has a blood - borne cancer such as leukemia or lymphoma.

This method has proven most effective in blood cancers (rather than solid tumors) such as leukemias and lymphomas.

Obviously, a «pro-life» person would support and encourage research designed to find the causes and cures of diseases that strike down young children disproportionately, such as leukemia.

The protein plays a critical role in the growth and survival of mammalian cells — although disruptions in the mTOR molecular pathway are linked to tumor growth, chemotherapy resistance and poor prognoses in malignancies such as leukemia.

These studies enrolled a total of 12,361 patients diagnosed with a variety of cancers, including lung, breast, skin, and prostate, as well as blood cancers such as leukemia, lymphoma, and myeloma.

The company is working on finding signatures of blood - based cancers, such as leukemia and lymphoma, in patients» immune systems.

Allogeneic bone marrow transplant (BMT) is an essential treatment to cure patients with blood cancers such as leukemia.

«For certain types of cancer, such as leukemia and melanoma, enormous progress has already been made in the field of immunotherapy.

A research project that began 20 years ago with an interest in how lithium treats mood disorders has yielded insights into the progression of blood cancers such as leukemia.

The most worrisome and abundant organism Woodcock found in pillows was Aspergillus fumigatus, an asthma - aggravating bacterium that can prove deadly to people with depressed immune systems, such as leukemia and transplant patients.

The risks have been «smoothed» to adjust for chance fluctuations that can occur when there are small numbers of cases especially for cancers such as leukemia and brain cancer.

Stem cell treatments are already a reality for diseases of the blood, such as leukemia and sickle - cell anemia (like Paizley's), and for tissue repair of the skin and the cornea.

As a result of the finding, researchers can also use Mauritian cynomolgus macaques to improve stem cell transplant outcomes for human patients with other blood - related conditions such as leukemia and sickle - cell disease.

The team also found that there were also cases of other cancer types in families with these hereditary mutations such as leukemias and brain tumours.

The researchers studied a class of anti-cancer drugs called BET inhibitors, which are considered promising new drugs for the treatment of blood cancers such as leukemias and lymphomas.

Joanne Kurtzberg, the trial's lead investigator, has extensive experience studying the effectiveness of cord blood transplants for treating various disorders, such as leukemia and sickle cell anemia.

In diseases affecting the bone marrow, such as leukemia, the degenerate cells must be destroyed using radiation or chemotherapy.

When these elements are not in sync, diseases such as leukemia and lymphoma can result.

As this regulation mechanism mediated by the immune system also plays an important role in other diseases such as leukemia, these findings could lead to novel therapeutic approaches.

«We hope that this will enable us to better understand and fight infectious diseases as well as bone marrow diseases such as leukemia,» says Carsten Riether from the Department of Clinical Research at the University of Bern and the Department of Medical Oncology at Bern University Hospital and the University of Bern.

As an organization of physicians and scientists who care for desperately ill patients, including those with blood cancers such as leukemia, lymphoma, and myeloma, the American Society of Hematology (ASH) is supportive of efforts to provide insurance parity for all approved evidence - based cancer treatments.

A new class of drugs for blood cancers such as leukemia and multiple myeloma is showing promise.

A recognized leader in the field of adoptive immunotherapy, Dr. Collins specializes in blood and marrow transplantation and hematologic malignancies such as leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma, Hodgkin's disease, and myelodysplasia.

This technique has the potential to address hematological disorders and is also being used to beef up immune cells to fight cancers such as leukemia.

Other DNA repair deficits can cause a range of diseases such as leukemia, breast cancer and hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer, a common cause of colon cancer in Western nations.

This is why transplants of HSCs (from bone marrow) are also used to treat cancers of the hematopoietic (blood) system, such as leukemia or lymphoma.

Tests that detect TRB clonal rearrangements are useful in the study of T - cell malignancies as leukemias and lymphomas generally share one or more cell - specific or «clonal» antigen receptor gene rearrangement (s).

Because many diseases, such as leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma and myelodysplasia, are more common in older patients, mini-HCTs allow these patients to potentially benefit from transplant.

Its work is focused ostensibly on breast, colon and lung cancers, as well as leukemia and a separate blood disease — myeloid dysplastic syndrome.

Smoking has been associated with cancer of the lungs, colon and voice box as well as leukemia and others, so quitting reduces risks for several kinds of cancer.

Much of the research focuses on the genomic changes that occur in numerous cancer types, such as breast, prostate, lung and pancreatic cancers, as well as leukemia, glioma and melanoma.

UT Southwestern Medical Center, in partnership with Children's Health, which is located on the same Dallas campus, has an excellent team of pediatric oncologists who treat pediatric blood cancers such as leukemia and lymphoma with the latest techniques.

Dr. Matthias Stephan has developed a way to make cell - based immunotherapy as effective against solid tumors as it has been against blood cancers such as leukemia.

Some epidemiological studies have linked exposure to formaldehyde over several months with certain forms of cancer, such as leukemia.

Easy bruising could be a sign of blood cancers such as leukemia or lymphoma if it occurs with other signs of illness.

Lead exposure, in particular, can cause malfunction in the formation of blood cells and can trigger cancers such as leukemia and lymphoma.

These illnesses include cancers of virtually every organ system of the body, as well as leukemia, liver disease, pulmonary damage, anemia and blood changes, nervous system disease, immune system damage, psychological damage, reproductive and fertility impairment, and kidney dysfunction.

Past studies have shown that sulforaphane is effective in preventing and treating solid tumors, but no research to date has indicated that the vegetable - derived compound can provide an effective remedy to fight blood - borne cancers such as leukemia.

When blood cell production is interrupted by disease, cancers (such as leukemia) or genetic abnormalities (such as sickle cell anemia), a person...