Sentences with phrase «cause of aggressive cancers»

Silverman, too, suspected an RNA virus might be the infectious cause of aggressive cancers in relatively young men.

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The triggering of PARP enables cancer cells to withstand anti-hormone therapy treatment, causing cells to cultivate and develop into a more aggressive form.

Conventional, high - dose chemotherapy treatments can cause the fibroblast cells surrounding tumors to secrete proteins that promote the tumors» recurrence in more aggressive forms, researchers at Taipei Medical University and the National Institute of Cancer Research in Taiwan and University of California, San Francisco, have discovered.

Researchers at the Universities of Bristol and Oxford found that testing asymptomatic men with PSA detects some disease that would be unlikely to cause any harm but also misses some aggressive and lethal prostate cancers.

But although the drug, called finasteride, caused a 25 % reduction in prostate cancer, it also boosted the risk of aggressive prostate cancer among those diagnosed with the disease.

Patients with aggressive prostate cancer, the second - leading cause of cancer deaths among men, had RNase L abnormalities too.

The genomic particularities of HeLa cells relate to their origin from an aggressive cancer and subsequent cultivation in laboratories for decades, both of which cause considerable genomic alterations.

They are hypothesized to be the cells that undergo cancerous transformation and cause Merkel cell carcinoma, an aggressive form of skin cancer with no effective treatment.

«But we didn't know whether this is a consequence of an aggressive tumor or rather its cause,» says Rudolf Kaaks, epidemiologist at the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ).

Seven years ago, biochemist Zheng Cui of Wake Forest University was conducting a routine experiment, injecting test mice with a strain of cancer cells so aggressive it caused a 100 percent death rate.

A unique approach to targeting the abnormal T - cells that cause T - cell lymphomas could offer hope to patients with the aggressive and difficult - to - treat family of cancers, finds a study involving researchers from Cardiff University.

As if chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) hasn't caused enough brawls, a new study published online by Science links the disease to a possibly contagious rodent retrovirus, XMRV, which has also been implicated in an aggressive form of prostate cancer.

In a 2012 study published in Science, the CUMC team found that some cases of glioblastoma, the most common and aggressive form of primary brain cancer, are caused by the fusion of two genes, FGFR3 and TACC3.

The first accurate mouse model of an aggressive childhood muscle cancer has improved researchers» understanding of the cause of the disease and could accelerate the identification of new...

High - grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC) is an aggressive subtype that causes nearly 90 % of ovarian cancer deaths.

And another one in rodents with lung cancer published in Science Translational Medicine in 2014 found that normal doses of vitamin E and smaller doses of acetylcysteine, an antioxidant supplement, appeared to lead to a three-fold increase in the number of tumors and caused them to be more aggressive.

Under active surveillance, doctors do not treat the cancer but instead keep a watchful eye on it to make sure it doesn't become aggressive — sparing patients the harms caused by surgery or radiation therapy, said Krist, a professor of family medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University.

This rare, aggressive type of breast cancer causes redness and swelling of the breast.

According to recent Bulletproof Radio (iTunes) podcast guest Kris Smith, MD, a top neurosurgeon who specializes in brain tumors at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, the downside of some aggressive cancer treatments is that they can cause lifelong side effects in survivors.

Mesothelioma, which is sometimes referred to as asbestos cancer, is an aggressive disease caused primarily by the inhalation of dangerous asbestos fibers.

Malignant mesothelioma is a rare but aggressive form of cancer that is typically caused by exposure to asbestos.

Mesothelioma is a highly aggressive form of cancer almost always caused by exposure to asbestos.

Mesothelioma is a rare but aggressive form of cancer that is almost always caused by asbestos exposure.

WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline)- Companies named in asbestos lawsuits may employ more aggressive defenses as information emerges that other factors can cause the particular type of cancer that leads to the costliest settlements and verdicts.

While his new venture has Anastos brimming with excitement, there is another cause that constantly remains front and center in his mind: the loss of his mom to glioblastoma, an extremely aggressive form of brain cancer.