Sentences with phrase «cancer patients of all ages»

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Thoughts and prayers are the kind of thing you send to sick children, patients with cancer, friends who have lost a loved one to old age or illness.

Cancer patients of child - bearing age may face fertility issues and can benefit from seeing a reproductive endocrinologist.

Young Women's Support Group - For patients under the age of 40 with all types of cancer.

«Everyone diagnosed with breast cancer should receive the highest level of treatment and care, regardless of their age, which is why Breast Cancer Care would welcome the introduction of evidence - based minimum standards of treatment for this patient cancer should receive the highest level of treatment and care, regardless of their age, which is why Breast Cancer Care would welcome the introduction of evidence - based minimum standards of treatment for this patient Cancer Care would welcome the introduction of evidence - based minimum standards of treatment for this patient group.

The median age was 66 and the majority of patients (88 percent) were treated for primary lung cancer.

Age also was found to significantly impact the risk of pancreatic cancer, with patients older than 70 having almost four times the risk of being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer compared to patients between the ages of 41 and 50.

In light of the late stage when pancreatic cancer is typically diagnosed and the significant rate of people diagnosed with acute pancreatitis that are subsequently diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, the study's authors suggest that patients over the age of 40 with acute pancreatitis should be evaluated for pancreatic cancer with esophageal ultrasound.

Even more than other types of cancer, melanoma is a disease of aging, with older patients more frequently diagnosed with the disease and having a worse prognosis.

Key findings in this study show that 5 - year survival for older lung cancer surgery patients is favorable; surgeons will be able to better individualize care for older lung cancer patients based on newly and uniquely linked data, and the prevalence of lung cancer is expected to increase as the population continues to age.

The authors anticipate that health care providers will use the early - detection biomarkers to test for their presence and levels in blood from pancreatic cancer patients and blood drawn from individuals with a high risk of developing pancreatic cancer, including those who have a first - degree relative with pancreatic cancer, are genetically predisposed to the disease, or who had a sudden onset of diabetes after the age of 50.

Patients aged 65 years and older are living longer after lung cancer surgery, and with older people representing a rapidly growing proportion of patients diagnosed with lung cancer, this improved survival is especially significant, according to an article posted online today by The Annals of Thoracic SPatients aged 65 years and older are living longer after lung cancer surgery, and with older people representing a rapidly growing proportion of patients diagnosed with lung cancer, this improved survival is especially significant, according to an article posted online today by The Annals of Thoracic Spatients diagnosed with lung cancer, this improved survival is especially significant, according to an article posted online today by The Annals of Thoracic Surgery..

The GTSD data included 37,009 records for patients 65 years of age and older who underwent lung cancer surgery between 2002 and 2012.

«This greater than expected survival in older patients selected for operative therapy is noteworthy,» said Dr. Fernandez, «especially considering that the prevalence of lung cancer is expected to increase as the population continues to grow older and more people survive into old age.»

«It is particularly good news for the large number of affected patients that if they are in good medical care and have survived breast cancer, they do not need to be more worried about deadly heart diseases than women at the same age without breast cancer.»

By providing a woman's family history of these cancers, including the ages they were diagnosed, the programs calculate a probability that the patient carries a harmful mutation in BRCA1 or BRCA2 (genes involved in controlling malignant cell growth).

«Currently, the NHS Breast Cancer Screening program in the UK is undertaking a large randomised controlled trial in patients aged 71 - 73 in order to evaluate the effects of screening on breast cancer incidence and mortCancer Screening program in the UK is undertaking a large randomised controlled trial in patients aged 71 - 73 in order to evaluate the effects of screening on breast cancer incidence and mortcancer incidence and mortality.

Researchers only discovered this process in the late 1990s, but they've already begun dozens of clinical trials to gauge whether infusing patients with these small RNAs works against a range of diseases, from lung infections to liver cancer to age - related macular degeneration, a sight - stealing condition that mainly affects people over the age of 50.

The cancer patients and the controls — between the ages of 18 and 80 — were carefully matched by age, sex, race, years of education and occupation.

The research team evaluated the combination of the biologic therapy brentuximab vedotin (Adcetris), a monoclonal antibody - drug conjugate, with the chemotherapy drug gemcitabine (Gemzar) in 42 pediatric and young - adult patients with Hodgkin lymphoma, the most common cancer in young people ages 15 to 29.

Boyle and colleagues used data from a case - control study conducted between 2000 and 2004 in British Columbia (BC), which recruited 820 NHL patients (59 percent men) of various ages from the B.C. Cancer Registry and 848 randomly selected controls matched for age, gender, and residential location, from the Client Registry of the British Columbia Ministry of Health.

Fragile skin that blisters easily: 90 percent of the patients that suffer from the skin condition recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (RDEB) develop rapidly progressing cutaneous squamous cell carcinomas, a type of skin cancer, by the age of 55.

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.

In our day and age, when growing numbers of women of reproductive age are diagnosed with thyroid cancer and when fertility problems are rampant, these findings should serve as an additional consideration for physicians contemplating radioactive iodine for their patients,» said senior author Karen Tordjman, MD, associate professor of medicine at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine of Tel Aviv University.

The researchers, at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, and Washington University in St. Louis in Missouri, and led by pediatric researcher and St. Jude's CEO James Downing, hunted for dangerous genes in 1120 cancer patients under the age of 20.

For their study, researchers led by Anthony Robbins, M.D., Ph.D., American Cancer Society director of health services research, analyzed data from nearly 260,000 cancer patients ages 15 to 39 in the National Cancer DatCancer Society director of health services research, analyzed data from nearly 260,000 cancer patients ages 15 to 39 in the National Cancer Datcancer patients ages 15 to 39 in the National Cancer DatCancer Database.

The researchers analyzed data from 11,216 patients over the age of 66 with stage IV colorectal cancer from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER)- Medicare database.

All cancer patients of reproductive age should be provided with fertility information and referrals for fertility preservation.

«Impaired fertility brought about by cancer treatment leads to long - term psychological distress and lowered quality of life for cancer patients of a reproductive age.

Screening for colorectal cancer based on age alone may contribute to both underuse and overuse of the tests among older patients, according to a study by investigators at the University of Michigan and the Veterans Affairs Center for Clinical Management Research.

In the analysis of 23 relevant studies, investigators found that many clinicians are broadly informed about the risk to their patients» fertility brought about by cancer treatment, but many factors hinder the appropriate discussions and referrals needed to provide adequate fertility support to patients of reproductive age.

«As the population of the United States ages, there will be a higher number of lung cancer patients with comorbidities at diagnosis.»

«One in five women with ovarian cancer does not undergo surgery, study reveals: Results show survival benefit of surgery for patients regardless of age or advanced disease, and point to barriers to cancer care delivery.»

«Because of relatively low survival rates and their advancing age, these patients tend to be poor candidates for aggressive therapies, like a bone marrow transplant,» said senior author Catriona Jamieson, MD, PhD, professor of medicine, chief of the Division of Regenerative Medicine at UC San Diego School of Medicine and director of the Stem Cell Research Program at Moores Cancer Center.

«Because Hodgkin lymphoma patients commonly receive treatment in their 20s and 30s, many of the stomach cancers arise before age 50, nearly 20 years earlier than is typical for newly diagnosed patients who have never had cancer.

Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center have identified RNA - based biomarkers that distinguish between normal, aging hematopoietic stem cells and leukemia stem cells associated with secondary acute myeloid leukemia (sAML), a particularly problematic disease that typically afflicts older patients who have often already experienced a bout with cCancer Center have identified RNA - based biomarkers that distinguish between normal, aging hematopoietic stem cells and leukemia stem cells associated with secondary acute myeloid leukemia (sAML), a particularly problematic disease that typically afflicts older patients who have often already experienced a bout with cancercancer.

Their analysis revealed that women who underwent childbirth and who breastfed were diagnosed with breast cancer at a later age, regardless of the patients» family history of cancer.

«Elderly individuals, those ages 75 and older, account for approximately 40 percent of patients diagnosed with pancreatic cancer,» says study lead author Raphael Yechieli, M.D., with the Department of Radiation Oncology at Henry Ford Hospital.

To determine the length of time it likely took for the study patients» cancers to form, the scientists used multiple statistical models that took into account the patient's age when they were diagnosed and the total number of mutations in each patient's 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.

«National trends tell us that very few patients over the age of 75 are getting any treatment at all for pancreatic cancer due to comorbidity risks,» notes Dr. Yechieli.

The researchers analyzed records of 39,447 cancer patients ages 20 to 40 years whose medical, demographic and insurance information was stored in a National Cancer Institute - sponsored datcancer patients ages 20 to 40 years whose medical, demographic and insurance information was stored in a National Cancer Institute - sponsored datCancer Institute - sponsored database.

Led by Professor Eric Finkelstein and Assistant Professor Chetna Malhotra from the LCPC, a centre of Duke - NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore (Duke - NUS), the study surveyed 542 adults aged 50 years and older and 332 advanced cancer patients in Singapore.

Evaluation of T1 - 2N0 - 1M0 cancers, which are at a stage when metastasis to distant organs has not yet occurred, in both groups showed a considerable advantage for BCT in patients with increasing age, those with comorbidity, and those who did not receive chemotherapy.

Faced with an aging population and rising rates of chronic diseases, Singapore has been forced to revisit how best to finance health services for the Pioneer Generation and is interested to understand the perspective of those most at risk, which includes older adults and patients with life - limiting illnesses, such as advanced cancer.

Chair of EBCC10, Professor Fatima Cardoso, who is Director of the Breast Unit at the Champalimaud Clinical Centre, Lisbon, Portugal, said: «This study suggests that the worse prognosis seen in breast cancer patients from ethnic minority groups in the UK can be at least in part explained by the younger age of this group.

Unlike most other genomic testing programs, Profile tumor analysis is offered to all patients regardless of age, cancer type, or stage of the cancer.

By age 38, the patient's breast cancer had spread to her bones, a typically fatal turn of events.

«With continued adoption of SBRT in community cancer centers, it is our hope that more patients will receive curative SBRT and the number of patients left untreated based on age or medical comorbidity will continue to fall.»

Finally, he added, because some cancer - related mutations may also increase the risk that a childhood - cancer survivor may later develop a second cancer, clinicians and cancer researchers will need to develop the most effective strategies for counseling patients «through the continuum of infancy to old age.»

New results show that these patients also do better regardless of their age, stage of disease and whether or not they have a cancer - driving mutation in the BRAF gene.