Sentences with phrase «deadly form»

Mesothelioma is a deadly form of cancer that can strike in the lungs, heart or other areas of the body.

A lawsuit linking Johnson & Johnson's popular talc - based hygiene products and a deadly form of cancer associated with asbestos exposure heads to trial on May 14 in South Carolina state court.

The trial, which started Feb. 19, focuses on charges that the defendants engaged in a conspiracy and cover - up that risked the lives of people in Libby, Mont., by allowing them to be exposed to a particularly deadly form of asbestos.

A deadly form of cancer, mesothelioma is most often caused due to an individual's exposure to asbestos.

This was the case in which federal prosecutors alleged that the defendants conspired to expose the residents of Libby, Mont., to a particularly deadly form of asbestos, knowing of its danger.

Additional Risk Factors Involved While asbestos exposure is involved with 100 % of all mesothelioma cases, additional factors impact the chances of developing this deadly form of cancer.

Symptoms of the most deadly form of malaria are usually experienced between one week and three months after infection.

And more importantly, certain types of vaccines themselves have been tied to a deadly form of cancer called Vaccine - Associated Sarcomas.

For starters, if you own a medium to large dog, you'll need to consider that neutering before 1 year of age can significantly heighten the chances for contracting osteosarcoma, a deadly form of cancer of the bones.

And more importantly, certain types of vaccines themselves have been tied to a deadly form of cancer called Vaccine - Associated Sarcomas in cats.

The warning was issued by the University of Melbourne after researchers found that a deadly form of paralysis is 70 times more likely in dogs who eat raw chicken necks.

Dogs and humans share a particularly deadly form of brain cancer: glioblastoma.

Hemangiosarcoma is a deadly form of cancer that found most commonly in dogs than any other species.

Rabies is a deadly form of viral encephalitis that affects the brain and nerves of mammals.

Cats exposed to secondhand smoke have a higher rate of feline lymphoma, a deadly form of cancer, than cats not exposed to secondhand smoke.

This cancer is melanoma, the most deadly form of skin cancer, and on a global scale one person dies each hour from it; a figure that is rising steadily.

For example, using a long range machine gun unit can cause an enemy to transform to a highly deadly form, whereas keeping them in close range will hold their fire and allow you to use slower, more powerful tank units to take them out.

After an experimental treatment for his deadly form of cancer leaves him completely disfigured (but with accelerated healing powers), he embarks on a mission to find the people who performed the procedures.

NAC can serve as a quick - acting antidote for mercury poisoning (study), can prevent mercury toxicity in mice (study), and can increase urinary removal of methylmercury, the most deadly form of mercury (study).

A 2015 study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute notes that drinking four or more cups of coffee per day is associated with a lower risk of developing melanoma, a deadly form of skin cancer.

Not surprisingly, recent research1 has pointed out that heart disease also increases your odds of developing Alzheimer's disease, which is a serious and deadly form of dementia.

Melanoma is the most deadly form of cancer, and rates have tripled over the past 35 years.

«Sunscreen alone may not reduce risk of melanoma, the most deadly form of skin cancer, because it prompts users to spend more time out in the sun, where they get more total UV and more sunburns,» explains EWG senior research analyst Sonya Lunder.

Tumor - targeting nanoparticles loaded with a drug that makes cancer cells more vulnerable to chemotherapy's toxicity could be used to treat an aggressive and often deadly form of endometrial cancer, according to new research...

UC San Diego Health System is now one of only 15 sites in the world offering a new treatment for a deadly form of brain cancer.

Plasmodium falciparum is the aetiological agent of the most deadly form of malaria, an infectious tropical disease that accounts for up to one million deaths annually [1, 2].

Laura Donnelly Thousands of women with the most deadly form of breast cancer could be given hope by a breakthrough treatment which could make chemotherapy effective.

If another form of the parasite gets into the bloodstream, it can damage the liver and spleen in a deadly form of the disease called visceral leishmaniasis, also known as black fever.

One or two copies usually results in type 1 SMA, the most common and deadly form of the disease.

Brain tumors are a particularly deadly form of cancer, and the leading cause of cancer - related death in children.

Melanoma is the most deadly form of skin cancer with 40,000 new cases diagnosed each year.

Berkeley Lab researchers have developed a new family of nanocarriers, called «3HM,» that meets all the size and stability requirements for effectively delivering therapeutic drugs to the brain for the treatment of a deadly form of cancer known as glioblastoma multiforme.

Ronai is being recognized for his significant contributions to melanoma research that are advancing understanding of this deadly form of skin cancer and could lead to new treatments.

Pneumonic plague is the most deadly form, often killing its victims within 24 hours.

Mertz sought to increase awareness of metastatic cancer — the most deadly form of breast cancer — and asked Gov. Blagojevich to dedicate the day throughout Illinois.

In 2003 a US government - funded team deliberately created an extremely deadly form of mousepox — to explore how terrorists or malcontented scientists could achieve the same results.

NEW YORK, NY (June 19, 2014)-- For the first time, a therapy has been found that can delay progression of metastatic uveal melanoma, a rare and deadly form of melanoma of the eye.

In the study, the investigators primarily looked at glioblastoma, the most deadly form of brain cancer.

While Zika virus causes devastating damage to the brains of developing fetuses, it one day may be an effective treatment for glioblastoma, a deadly form of brain cancer.

«I have been diagnosed with a very severe, rare, and deadly form of leukemia, which generally kills within a few weeks,» he wrote.

In addition, the protein seems to be more prevalent in diseased tissues with high concentrations of the deadly form of PrP.

«Plasmodium falciparum is the most deadly form of malaria parasite, causing most of the 800,000 deaths from malaria each year.

But Henry Niman, a Harvard researcher, says the findings suggest that the real SARS virus is still circulating in Canada and could mutate back into the more deadly form.

A deadly form of this disease and a noncancerous but still serious tumor afflicted members of the human evolutionary family nearly 2 million years ago, two new investigations of fossils suggest.

For women with ovarian cancer, a particularly deadly form of gynecologic cancer, even improvements in treatment outcomes have been elusive.

Barrett's esophagus and the cancer share many mutations, but we are now a step closer to understanding which are the important mutations that tip the condition over into a potentially deadly form of cancer.»

New insights into specific gene mutations that arise in this often deadly form of brain cancer have pointed to the potential of gene therapy, but it's very difficult to effectively deliver toxic or missing genes to cancer cells in the brain.

NEW YORK — In 30 years as an oncologist, Dr. Howard Fine estimates he has treated some 20,000 patients with glioblastomas, the most deadly form of brain cancer, «and almost all of them are dead.»

Immunotherapy is a promising approach in the treatment of metastatic melanoma, an aggressive and deadly form of skin cancer; but for most patients, immunotherapy drugs so far have failed to live up to their promise and provide little or no benefit.

Based on the pioneering work of Dr. Claire Lugassy and Dr. Raymond Barnhill at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, a new study provides additional support for a process by which melanoma cells, a deadly form of skin cancer, can spread throughout the body by creeping like tiny spiders along the outside of blood vessels without ever entering the blood stream, and that this process is exacerbated by exposure to ultraviolet (UV) light.