Sentences with phrase «concentrating on cancer»

The improvement to my health over all has been astounding and even though I was concentrating on cancer issues my PD is the true beneficiary to my changes.

HLI is concentrating on cancer, diabetes and obesity, heart and liver diseases, and dementia with its team of expert scientists and clinicians.

Researchers analyzed conversations that did not concentrate on cancer — otherwise called «normal conversations,» which made up 95 percent of couples» daily conversations.

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Moreover, in the aftermath of surgery, the immune system concentrates most of its efforts on healing the surgical wound, lowering its guard against cancer cells.

Though a cancer institute researcher, O'Brien had also concentrated on comparative genetic studies to understand the evolution and conservation of mammals.

Geneticists have so far concentrated on genes that are linked to disease: first the simple but rare inherited diseases like cystic fibrosis (the gene for which is on chromosome 7) or Huntington's (chromosome 4), then the environmental diseases for which different people inherit different susceptibilities, such as Alzheimer's (chromosome 19) or breast cancer (chromosomes 13 and 17).

Since the thyroid absorbs nearly all of the iodine in the human body, radioactive iodine given to a patient will concentrate in thyroid cancer cells, killing them with little effect on the rest of the body.

In 2006 Pfizer started early human testing on one of these new, targeted drugs called crizotinib (now sold as Xalkori), concentrating on a mutation of a gene called MET, implicated in several cancers, including esophageal and stomach cancer.

Part of the problem may be that NewLink is a small company, with about 100 employees, that has concentrated on immunotherapies to fight cancer in recent years.

Sharon Weber, a co-author on the Oncotarget paper and a professor of surgery, concentrates on pancreatic cancer.

In clinical practice, she concentrates on germ cell tumors, while her epidemiologic research primarily focuses on colorectal cancer screening and prevention.

Unlike disease - risk genetics, which focuses on whether individuals» genotypes make them more susceptible to developing, say, breast cancer or Alzheimer's, pharmacogenomics concentrates exclusively on genetic markers that interact with and respond to medications.

«Since the slight decrease in cancer mortality largely reflects changing incidence or earlier detection, rather than improved therapy, the logical next step, we believe, would be to shift more resources into an arena where we have proved that they make a difference and concentrate our efforts on prevention and early detection of cancer,» says Bailar.

Despite a large amount of work that has concentrated on understanding colon tumor formation, we still do not know the full complement of molecular lesions that are individually necessary (and together sufficient) to cause colorectal cancer.

Researchers, able to concentrate on that one model, can learn more about the cancer's pathology and then design drugs that protect cells from harm.

August 15, 2017 New genomic data platform to focus on children's health issues UChicago Medicine to play key role in NIH - funded initiative that concentrates on genetic flaws related to pediatric cancer, birth defects

To understand the selection mechanism behind mutations, network - based studies were used to estimate the importance of a mutated protein compared to non-mutated ones in signalling and protein — protein interaction networks.10, 11,12,13 Proteins mutated in cancer were found having a high number of interacting partners (i.e., a high degree of connectivity), which indicates high local importance.10 Mutated proteins are also often found in the centre of the network, in key global positions, as quantified by the number of shortest paths passing through them if all proteins are connected with each other (i.e., they have high betweenness centrality; hereafter called betweenness).11, 12 Mutated proteins also have high clustering coefficients, which means their neighbours are also neighbours of each other.10, 13 Moreover, neighbourhood analysis of mutated proteins have been previously successfully used to predict novel cancer - related genes.14, 15 However, to the best of our knowledge, no study has concentrated particularly on the topological importance of first neighbours of mutated proteins in cancer, and their usefulness as drug targets themselves.

In many cases, it is not life - threatening to leave a tumor alone and concentrate on stopping the spread of cancer.

Hormone imbalance can manifest in symptoms such as painful periods, PMS, headaches, insomnia, anxiety, depression, digestive disorders, frequent infections, difficulty concentrating, cancer, and the list goes on.

The drug tamoxifen, for instance, helps many women with breast cancer, but they pay the price of an increased risk of endometrial cancer.1 Medicine would do much better concentrating on genuine prevention — especially through nutrition.

For instance, they could have made it strictly a Hilly Kristal biopic, and concentrated on his rise to prominence in music circles, his philosophy on showcasing music and entertainment, his family issues, his bankruptcies, and his battle with the lung cancer that eventually took him in 2007.

Concentrating on the brachycephalic syndrome also ignores other serious problems in the breed, such as inability to breed and deliver normally, poor mothering, high puppy mortality, the accumulation of simple recessive deleterious traits, a number of orthopedic problems, certain cancers, allergies, immunodeficiency, and autoimmune disorders.

As well as accident and illness cover, many providers now offer wellness plans to cover the cost of routine veterinary care, and advanced treatment options for conditions such as cancer, meaning you and your pet can concentrate on living life to the fullest.

Our efforts should be concentrated on helping human needs, cancer research, child illness, etc... not on a bunch of cats that do nothing but eat, crap, kill and reproduce.

THE TWO MEN ALSO DELVE INTO Taylor's source materials and his ties to black artists across generations who have concentrated on the figure, including his good friend Noah Davis, who died in 2015 at age 32 due to complications from a rare form of cancer.

His design agency Layer — which launched earlier this year to concentrate on «human - focused projects» — recently partnered with UK cancer charity Maggie's to redesign the charity collection box.

They are lenient if medical cannabis is prescribed for treating medical conditions like insomnia, glaucoma and headaches but if the marijuana is being used to help with more serious medical conditions like cancer then the company will be concentrating more on cancer rather than the marijuana.