Sentences with phrase «cancer test currently»

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Currently marketed for research use by Biofluidica, the test's microfluidic channels use specific cancer antibodies to detect capture circulating tumor cells.

If they are, ctDNA testing could become a way of detecting breast cancer metastasis much earlier than is currently possible.

Researchers are currently testing pembrolizumab to determine if it has the same result in other cancers, as well as trying to combine pembrolizumab with other therapies.

Currently, doctors use a variety of imaging techniques and tests to diagnose and monitor prostate cancer including PSA blood tests, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), positron emission tomography (PET), and computerized tomography (CT) scans.

The authors suggest that HAND2 methylation «could be applied to triage women who present with postmenopausal bleeding (currently ~ 90 % of women who present with this symptom and are cancer - free must undergo endometrial biopsy for a definitive diagnosis) and could be further employed as a test to early detect or even predict the risk for endometrial cancer and response to preventative treatment.»

Drug derivatives of JQ1 are currently being tested in clinical trials for people with cancer.

A blood test that could detect precancerous polyps would be an improvement over other non-invasive colon cancer screening mechanisms currently available.

The most widely used screening test for prostate cancer is currently the PSA test, which measures the blood's level of PSA — a protein that is naturally produced by the prostate gland and is typically increased when cancer is present.

A new therapeutic approach tested by a team from Maisonneuve - Rosemont Hospital (CIUSSS - EST, Montreal) and the University of Montreal gives promising results for the treatment of multiple myeloma, a cancer of the bone marrow currently considered incurable with conventional chemotherapy and for which the average life expectancy is about 6 or 7 years.

Many countries are currently considering switching from classic Pap tests to primary HPV tests for cervical cancer screening, based on the strong evidence linking cervical abnormalities and infection with certain HPV types, and data suggesting that HPV tests detect more high - grade precancerous lesions.

«The good news is that this finding predicts that patients missing either gene should be sensitive to new therapies targeting focal adhesion enzymes, which are currently being tested in early - stage clinical trials,» says Shaw, who is also a member of the Moores Cancer Center and an adjunct professor at the University of California, San Diego.

This study, conducted by the Gynecologic Oncology Group, a cooperative group funded by the National Cancer Institute, was the second to test bevacizumab under these conditions (first chemotherapy for platinum - sensitive recurrence), a use for which bevacizumab is not currently approved by the Food and Drug Administration.

The technique is currently being tested in a number of clinical applications, including imaging breast tumors, detecting skin cancer, and tracking blood oxygenation in tissues.

«Our next step is to see how long we can extend the cycling pattern, and test some of the STAT3 inhibitors currently in clinical trials for other indications such as cancer, as this could accelerate testing in humans,» added Sacco.

«We have shown how a simple blood test has the potential to accurately predict which patients will relapse from breast cancer, much earlier than we can currently.

A new blood test seems to be more than twice as good at detecting bowel cancer than the method currently used to screen for polyps and early bowel cancer

The study sets the stage for the development of more - sensitive and specific non-invasive tests for prostate cancer than those currently available, which could result in fewer unnecessary prostate biopsies with less treatment - related morbidity, according to a new study in The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics.

This new drug — AZD3965 — is currently in clinical trials, but it has not yet been tested in small cell lung cancer.»

A simple blood test is currently in development that could help predict the likelihood of a woman developing breast cancer, even in the absence of a high - risk BRCA1 gene mutation, according to research published in the open access journal Genome Medicine.

Currently, testing for Lynch syndrome genes is generally only done when someone has a personal or family history of colon or uterine cancer.

«We tested a drug currently used for cancer treatment (vorinostat (Zolinza)-RRB- and found that it reduced average daily seizures in zebrafish and mouse models by 60 per cent,» says Kurrasch.

It is currently being tested not only for correcting genetic defects, but also for treating cancer and other acquired diseases.

Strategies to manipulate the PD - 1 pathway are currently being tested in clinical trials for cancer and HIV / AIDS.

And the types of potentially treatable cancers are growing: Currently, more than 100 active or recruiting US clinical trials are testing checkpoint inhibitors to treat bladder cancer, liver cancer, and pancreatic cancer, among others.

Relative to the PTEN testing criteria currently endorsed by the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN), the CC score is less complex to use, more accurate and can provide individualized estimates of one's probability of harboring a PTEN gene mutation.

The King lab is currently testing these novel cancer therapies in mouse models of metastatic breast and prostate cancer through the use of whole body luminescence imaging.

The Pap test is widely used to screen for cervical cancer, but currently there is no routine screening method for ovarian and endometrial cancers.

March 29, 2018 - Scientists at Stanford University are currently preparing the first human test of a cancer «vaccine,» a treatment that eliminated up to 97 percent of tumors during trials with mice.

TTFields is currently being tested for other cancers in various clinical trials, presented in this website.

If you have had or currently have breast cancer and want to know your HER - 2 / neu status, your physician can request the test to be performed on archival tumor material.

Though other canine cancer detection tests are currently being used by veterinarians, VDI TKcanine + is different because it confirms cancer earlier without having to use expensive radiology.

Frequent blood tests are currently used to evaluate cancer patients» tolerance to a particular treatment dosage.

At one time or another, 20 % of women nationwide have used Planned Parenthood's services; currently, the organization operates more than 800 clinics across the country, performs a million Pap tests and more than 800,000 breast exams each year (both critical to the early detection of cancer), and provides nearly 4 million tests and treatments for sexually transmitted infections.

BOSTON - Yesterday, the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies issued a 2016 fiscal year funding proposal that would eliminate the Title X Family Planning program, cutting health care - including family planning services, well - woman exams, lifesaving cancer screenings, birth control, and testing and treatments for sexually transmitted infections - that nearly 4.6 million people, including approximately 1.5 million Planned Parenthood patients, currently rely on.

Although there are currently no good tests for ovarian cancer, it can sometimes be caught early.