Sentences with phrase «better on cancer treatment»

«Could it be that patients who have a fiber - rich diet with more whole grains — that is, with a more microbiome - friendly diet — might do better on cancer treatment?»

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Indolfi is not the only person working on a better treatment for pancreatic cancer, of course.

For example, Watson for Oncology can summarize the key medical attributes of a cancer patient and rank the best treatment options based on the data it has access to.

The Finnish drug maker on Sunday presented results from phase I trial of a prostate cancer treatment, saying according the data it «has been well tolerated, with no significant treatment - related adverse events.»

It will take at least a couple of years for Theralase Technologies Inc.'s cancer treatment technology to become regulated (and at least a year before we know how well it works on humans), but the healthcare tech they have under development is worth talking about.

But he adds that the industry has entered a new cycle where targeted therapies, particularly in cancer treatments, means there are some good returns on R&D.

This surgeon was one of the best in this field and had even successfully tried a treatment on this exact cancer for other patients that tripled the five - year - survival odds — from 5 percent to 15 percent — albeit with a poor quality of life.

When it comes to making decisions about cancer treatment, I appear to be what Schwartz would call a «satisficer,» one who is willing to live with the «good enough» rather than insisting on the «best.»

Your breast cancer care team works closely with you to create a personalized treatment plan based on your particular situation, as well as your needs and goals.

Macrogenics, a biopharmaceutical company, is focused on discovering and developing innovative antibody - based therapeutics for the treatment of cancer, as well as various autoimmune disorders and infectious diseases.

Nanotax works by flipping the script on how paclitaxel is administered to patients and with how it's formulated, potentially making it a more effective and better tolerated treatment for ovarian and other abdominal cancers.

Based on the evolutionary idea that targeted epigenetic stochasticity can improve adaptation, these observations could explain how cancer cells are good at evading chemotherapy treatments and spreading from one part of the body to another, he adds.

The takeaway for men receiving prostate cancer treatment, Showalter said, is that they should discuss the best strategy with their physicians based on their particular case.

«Everything we talked about was about research directly on the embryo,» for example, to improve on infertility treatment or better understand cancer biology, says R. Alta Charo, a law professor and bioethicist at the University of Wisconsin Law School who was a member of the NIH Human Embryo Research Panel in the mid-1990s, which considered how embryos might be used in research.

«This should not deter or scare patients from undergoing breast cancer treatment, but should allow them to make informed decisions with their doctor on the best cancer treatment for them.»

Precision cancer care focuses on identifying the specific biomarkers of a patient's cancer, which can help doctors make decisions about the best treatment options.

By linking these layers and others to expand from genomics to multi-omics, scientists might be able to meet the goals of personalized medicine: to figure out, for example, what treatment a particular cancer patient will best respond to, based on the network dynamics responsible for a tumor.

More than 500 clinical trials are underway to explore the impact of these and other checkpoint inhibitors on a dozen varieties of cancer, alone or with other immunotherapies, as well as conventional treatments.

«Not only could the test have a major impact on treatment of prostate cancer, but it could also be adapted to open up the possibility of precision medicine to patients with other types of cancer as well.»

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Maggie Blanks, Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund's CEO, said: «It's because of these bleak facts that our funding strategy focuses on finding and developing alternative, effective treatments for patients as well as finding a way to diagnose pancreatic cancer at an early Cancer Research Fund's CEO, said: «It's because of these bleak facts that our funding strategy focuses on finding and developing alternative, effective treatments for patients as well as finding a way to diagnose pancreatic cancer at an early cancer at an early stage.

Often, that medical treatment becomes purely palliative, meaning we manage the growth of the cancer and its effects on the body as well as we can, but we don't expect to cure the disease.

Some women with estrogen receptor - positive breast cancer do extremely well on such anti-hormone treatment.

«Our study on the TACC3 - chTOG interaction will allow cellular biologists and researchers on microtubule dynamics to better understand how microtubule assembly is regulated during cellular division,» says Montoya, and he anticipates that «it could also help in developing new anti-microtubule drugs, providing more effective therapeutic options in cancer treatment.»

«GECCO aims to continue to discover additional colorectal cancer - related variants by investigating how genetic variants are modified by other environmental and lifestyle risk factors, including biomarkers as well as how they influence patient treatment response and survival,» Peters said, emphasizing how much further research is required to uncover the specific mechanisms by which genes modulate the intake of certain foods on colorectal cancer risk.

Susan Galbraith, head of the oncology innovative medicines unit at AstraZeneca, said: «Lung cancer is still the leading cancer killer, and we are working on a number of potential treatment options that could provide patients with a better chance of beating the disease.

«Lung cancer care is complicated, and all key specialists must be actively engaged early on with each patient to determine the best sequence of tests and treatment for each individual,» said Dr. Osarogiagbon.

How well a cancer treatment works might depend on what's living in your gut.

These are usually personalised to the patient and are selected based on the type of breast cancer, the site and extent of spread as well as the patient's decision as to what treatments are acceptable to them.

So when you're searching for answers about cancer, you can't really talk about one treatment, because each type of cancer has its own genetic signature, and what works well with one cancer may have no effect on another type of cancer.

Our radiation oncologists and physicists are dedicated to ensuring that patients receive the very best radiation treatment based on their specific breast cancer diagnosis, recommended dosage, and the targeted body area receiving radiation therapy.

For Joho, now 27 and living in suburban Philadelphia, the hard lesson from the past few years is clear: The cancer field is changing so rapidly that patients can't rely on their doctors to find them the best treatments.

Restricting the movement of the drug also reduces potentially harmful secondary effects on other parts of the body — for instance, the hair loss that can result from toxic cancer treatments, or the loss of so - called good bacteria due to antibiotic use.

For most of cancer treatment, things are just being done to you; there's very little a patient can do to get well from cancer on her own.

We offer a full spectrum of treatment services on site, including chemotherapy and radiation therapy, pre - and post transplant care for blood and bone marrow stem cell transplantation, as well as cancer screenings and supportive care services such as patient support groups and a cancer resource center.

Focused on the treatment of cancers and blood disorders, as well as directing chemotherapy care, the hematologists and oncologists at Wake Forest Baptist Health work as part of a team of specialists to provide the best possible care in North Carolina.

Moreover, PHENONIM - ICS is involved in European projects presenting a strong impact on human health: Interreg CARDIOGENE (Genetic mechanisms of cardiovascular diseases), GENCODYS (Genetic and epigenetic networks involved in cognitive dysfunctions), AgedBrainSYSBIO (Basic studies of brain aging), as well as projects in partnership with industry: MAGenTA (an Industrial Strategic Innovation project supported by Bpifrance about the treatment of major urogenital diseases) and CanPathPro (H2020 program), to develop a predictive modeling platform of signaling pathways involved in cancers.

Working with a group of 16 cancer survivors, all but one of who recently finished chemotherapy cancer treatment, the researchers focused on T cells, a type of immune cell that attacks a variety of infectious agents as well as cancer cells.

Breast cancer research and treatment have long focused on a patient's original tumor as a guide to preventing relapse; however, research suggests that some recurrent cancers are different from the primary tumor and may respond better to different therapies.

As reported online in PLoS One on October 3, Hopkins colorectal cancer specialists John Abraham, Ph.D., and Stephen Meltzer, M.D. - working with the notion that small molecules generally make better treatment packages - designed small bits of protein only 10 amino acids long as the foundation for their drugs.

This includes predictive factors, validation of diagnosis specific tools for functional assessment as well as the impact of different surgical techniques and type of chemotherapy used on the incidence of chronic pain after surgery and adjunctive cancer treatment.

The goal: find patterns in the data on cancer patients to understand the disease better, and accelerate the search for new treatments.

An authority on the study and treatment of childhood cancers, as well as the biology and therapy of hemoglobinopathies — blood diseases such as sickle cell anemia and thalassemia — Cunningham is known for his work on understanding the molecular mechanism underpinning red blood cell production.

UQDI has strong clinical interactions, world - class facilities, and a greater collaborative research environment, allowing researchers to focus their efforts on turning their scientific discoveries into better treatments for diseases including a variety of cancers, osteoporosis, arthritis, and other autoimmune diseases.

The research presentations cover a wide range of disciplines, treatment approaches and cancer types, including a unique form of immunotherapy for ovarian cancer, promising results on a new treatment approach for Hodgkin lymphoma in children and young adults and an effort to build a predictive tool to determine which patients are most likely to respond well to checkpoint inhibitors.

I also worked on my gratitude, realizing that hot flashes were better than the alternative of not surviving my cancer treatment.

The treatments for thyroid cancer are based on the type of cancer, and in some cases, the staging — how far the cancer has spread to other parts of the body — as well as if it's a new cancer or a recurrent cancer.

Research studies on bladder, breast, colon, ovarian and prostate cancer have shown the cancer preventive benefits of eating kale, as well as treatment benefits.

My diet has been going well so far, I will allow myself to have a little extra carbs on the 2 days after treatment (with the theory that the extra glucose could help feed the chemo drugs to the cancer cells), then I switch back to my whole food keto diet (with extra protein, because my body needs additional protein for recovery).

I certainly am not an expert on hormones, iodine or the thyroid, but three of the best known cancer doctors, Dr. Hoxsey, Dr. Gerson and Dr. Moerman, all included some form of iodine in their treatments.