Sentences with phrase «by chemotherapy in»

Zadaxin ® is used to treat hepatitis B and C, and has been studied extensively for its ability to support an immune system that has been suppressed by chemotherapy in cancer patients.

«The cancer stem cells actively regrow and respond to the induced damage or apoptosis (cell death) caused by chemotherapy in between the different cycles, similar to how normal tissue stem cells respond to wound - induced damages.»

Not exact matches

Chemotherapy works by killing cancer cells by targeting fast - dividing cells, and in most cases, kills off some healthy cells along the way, including nerve cells in the brain.

In a late - stage trial, Darzalex combined with Velcade and chemotherapy slashed patients» risk of worsening disease or death by a stunning 61 % compared with the results for Velcade and chemotherapy alone.

Those drugs in combination reduce patients «risk of death or their cancer progressing by 42 percent versus chemotherapy, still beating Wall Street «s estimates.

The disciples» ascent of the mountain, for example, recalls the difficulty of any personal journey, while the change in the appearance of Jesus is a stark reminder of the physical alterations caused by chemotherapy treatments.

Our goal should be to educate this desire in the proper order of love rather than allowing ourselves to be conscripted into the increasingly frantic efforts to sustain the postwar era by administering yet another round of the chemotherapy of disenchantment.

Extraordinary Medical Bills: «I have $ 10,000 in out of pocket chemotherapy bills, plus travel expense back and forth to my treatments is not covered by insurance» would be considered extraordinary.

Weeks in the hospital having your blood stream broken down by chemotherapy so that it can be rebuilt, only to begin all over again and again and again.

In a beautifully ironic twist for a natural chemical falsely accused of causing stomach cancer, capsaicin has been shown to be «absolutely effective» in alleviating the pain from oral stomatitis, mouth sores caused by cancer chemotherapy and radiation treatments, according to Dr. Ann M. Berger of Yale University's Pain Management CenteIn a beautifully ironic twist for a natural chemical falsely accused of causing stomach cancer, capsaicin has been shown to be «absolutely effective» in alleviating the pain from oral stomatitis, mouth sores caused by cancer chemotherapy and radiation treatments, according to Dr. Ann M. Berger of Yale University's Pain Management Centein alleviating the pain from oral stomatitis, mouth sores caused by cancer chemotherapy and radiation treatments, according to Dr. Ann M. Berger of Yale University's Pain Management Center.

Another study from Nigeria published in December of 2017 is titled Antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects of virgin coconut oil supplementation abrogate acute chemotherapy oxidative nephrotoxicity induced by anticancer drug methotrexate in rats.

The actor was knighted by the Queen at Windsor Castle in 2015, when he was midway through a course of chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer.

Just yesterday after weeks of speculations as regards this portion of the statement, a picture of the former minister surfaced in a photograph first published by owner of Ovation Magazine, Dele Momodu, which shows stunning Mrs. Alison - Madueke, looking old with wrinkled skin and hair loss, supposedly from undergoing chemotherapy.

I think it's fair to say she would never have been a Corbynite, and in the midst of her chemotherapy, last summer's leadership election mostly passed her by.

Taub was honored in a May 2011 resolution sponsored by Silver for «developing unique new treatment algorithms utilizing intracavitary chemotherapy for multimodal treatment of abdominal mesothelioma and for lung - sparing treatment of pleural mesothelioma,» state records show.

In 2010, the first curative therapy for metastatic melanoma, which normally does not respond to chemotherapy, was approved by the FDA.

By including chemotherapy molecules in the nanoparticle structures when they are assembled, the molecules could be drawn into tumors — and then released with the application of a light at a shorter wavelength that triggers disassembly through photo - cleavage.

By creating an experimental model of leukemia in mice whose cancer cells were resistant to chemotherapy the team was able to caracterize these cells» metabolic profile and observed certain modifications at the level of the mitochondria.

«By treating with chemotherapy, we're driving cells through a transition state and creating vulnerabilities,» said first author Aaron Goldman, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in biomedical engineering at BWH.

«They also suggest that low - dose metronomic chemotherapy or targeting the chemokine signaling mediated by chemo - treated fibroblasts may improve the therapeutic outcome in desmoplastic cancers.»

By hitting breast cancer cells with a targeted therapeutic immediately after chemotherapy, researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) were able to target cancer cells during a transitional stage when they were most vulnerable, killing cells and shrinking tumors in the lab and in pre-clinical models.

«In an earlier phase I clinical study, our group has shown that increasing the dose of radiation delivered daily with high precision and using image guidance may offset the need for chemotherapy in improving survival, and it may also improve quality of life measures by reducing treatment periods in halIn an earlier phase I clinical study, our group has shown that increasing the dose of radiation delivered daily with high precision and using image guidance may offset the need for chemotherapy in improving survival, and it may also improve quality of life measures by reducing treatment periods in halin improving survival, and it may also improve quality of life measures by reducing treatment periods in halin half.

In one example highlighted by the researchers, mouse models of T - ALL were treated either with a combination of mTOR inhibitor pp242 and the chemotherapy drug AraC, or they were treated with just AraC or pp242.

«In pancreatic, ovarian and liver cancers, we hope that by adding anti-cancer stem cell drugs to standard of care, we can control proliferating cells within the tumor that could otherwise help the tumor regenerate in the face of existing chemotherapies.&raquIn pancreatic, ovarian and liver cancers, we hope that by adding anti-cancer stem cell drugs to standard of care, we can control proliferating cells within the tumor that could otherwise help the tumor regenerate in the face of existing chemotherapies.&raquin the face of existing chemotherapies.»

Chien Ho, professor of biological sciences at Carnegie Mellon University, and his colleagues have developed a novel way to improve delivery of chemotherapy nanodrugs by using Intralipid ®, an FDA - approved nutrition source to temporarily blunt the reticuloendothelial system — a network of cells and tissues found throughout the body, including in the blood, lymph nodes, spleen and liver, that play an important role in the immune system.

A blood cancer characterized by the rapid growth of abnormal white blood cells, AML is typically treated with chemotherapy, in some cases followed by a stem cell transplant.

Of the dogs stricken with osteosarcoma, 35 had the cancer in a leg which was subsequently amputated, followed by chemotherapy, which is the standard - of - care treatment; the dogs with elevated total cholesterol had a median survival time of 455 days, more than 200 days greater than the median survival time for dogs with normal cholesterol.

We identified patients with mutations that predict phenomenal outcomes in the disease; this is a group of women with endometrial cancer who won't need the financial, physical or emotional toll of chemotherapy at all — they're patients who are probably cured by surgery alone.

«GI side effects of chemotherapy reduced in mice by targeting gut microbes.»

Twenty - nine medicines developed by Roche are included in the World Health Organization Model Lists of Essential Medicines, among them life - saving antibiotics, antimalarials and chemotherapy.

The addition of high doses of a form of vitamin A could help make chemotherapy more successful in treating pancreatic cancer, according to an early study by Queen Mary University of London (QMUL).

By using «gemcitabine» chemotherapy to target cancer cells, and a form of vitamin A to target the surrounding stromal cells, the combined approach led to a reduction in cancer cell proliferation and invasion.

«CRKII most likely regulates the stability of mutated epidermal growth factor receptors and drives cancer growth by promoting signaling, or communication, within cancer cells,» said Julia Petschnigg, lead author on the paper and a postdoctoral fellow at U of T. «We found that a combinatorial chemotherapy that inhibits those mutated receptors and CRKII could be beneficial in treating lung cancer.»

Cancer cells had essentially figured out how to survive by rewiring their metabolism in response to chemotherapy.

«We know that if you take these tumor cells out of a patient and put them in a petri dish, they can be killed by chemotherapy,» Beatty said.

The findings, announced online in the journal Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy and funded by the National Institutes of Health, provide a needed boost to the field of antibiotic development, which has been limited in the last four decades and outpaced by the rise of drug - resistant bacterial strains.

An early - stage clinical study by another institution, published in the Lancet Oncology in May 2016, combined chemotherapy with an experimental drug that blocks CCR2, a receptor on monocytes and macrophages whose activation stimulates these cells to infiltrate tumors.

Potential cancer treatments are loitering in the wings as clinical trials are delayed by widespread shortages of common chemotherapy drugs.

But a new study reports that these tiny flecks of carbon can shrink tumors in mice by delivering chemotherapy drugs to cancer cells.

This is characterised by the targeted strengthening of the body's own immune cells, unlike in chemotherapy, in which the aim is direct destruction of the cancer cells.

Autophagy has emerged as a key pathway that cancer cells use to survive in the face of assault by chemotherapy and radiation; however, autophagy as a potential druggable mechanism in patients who become resistant to BRAF inhibitors has not been investigated.

Instead of using the combined chemotherapies simultaneously, as was previously the case, the researchers want to proceed step by step in the future.

But in those with immune systems weakened by age, chemotherapy or antibiotics that wipe out their «lawn» of beneficial intestinal microbes, C. difficile can get a foothold and cause changes that damage the gut.

As part of the project, announced last week by Kenneth Hagemann, director of the Pentagon's Defense Nuclear Agency, 24 soldiers from Brooks Air Force Base in Texas are taking prescription drugs — ondansetron hydrochloride and granisetron hydrochloride — that are given to cancer patients undergoing radiotherapy or chemotherapy.

A drug used to treat men with late - stage prostate cancer proved effective in stemming progression of the disease in research participants who had not yet received chemotherapy and extended their survival, according to results from a multi-national Phase III clinical trial led by the Knight Cancer Institute at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU).

One example: A consensus panel convened by the National Institutes of Health, after reviewing medical literature, concluded in November 1997 that «there is clear evidence that needle acupuncture treatment is effective for postoperative and chemotherapy nausea and vomiting, nausea of pregnancy, and postoperative dental pain.»

The addition of necitumumab to gemcitabine and cisplatin chemotherapy improved overall survival and progression free survival by 21 % and 16 %, respectively, as compared to chemotherapy alone in patients whose tumours expressed the EGFR protein.

A phase I trial conducted by investigators at the Colorado State University Veterinary School in 30 dogs with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma with HCQ and the standard chemotherapy doxorubicin (DOX) showed a 100 percent clinical benefit rate.

A phase I clinical trial conducted by investigators at the University of Texas San Antonio, showed that the combination of HCQ and the chemotherapy drug vorinostat in 27 patients with advanced solid tumors, including renal cell carcinoma and colon cancer, was clinically safe and inhibited autophagy.

In the new study, patients with a higher quality of life during their final days included those who avoided hospitalizations and stays in the intensive care unit (ICU), were not worried about death, prayed or meditated, received care at home, did not use a feeding tube, were visited by a pastor in the hospital or clinic, did not undergo chemotherapy in the final week of life, and felt an alliance with their oncologist regarding therapIn the new study, patients with a higher quality of life during their final days included those who avoided hospitalizations and stays in the intensive care unit (ICU), were not worried about death, prayed or meditated, received care at home, did not use a feeding tube, were visited by a pastor in the hospital or clinic, did not undergo chemotherapy in the final week of life, and felt an alliance with their oncologist regarding therapin the intensive care unit (ICU), were not worried about death, prayed or meditated, received care at home, did not use a feeding tube, were visited by a pastor in the hospital or clinic, did not undergo chemotherapy in the final week of life, and felt an alliance with their oncologist regarding therapin the hospital or clinic, did not undergo chemotherapy in the final week of life, and felt an alliance with their oncologist regarding therapin the final week of life, and felt an alliance with their oncologist regarding therapy.