Sentences with phrase «developing after cancer»

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Doctors in Edinburgh are developing a service to store testicular tissue from boys as young as one to help those at risk of infertility after cancer treatment.

He was released in 2016 after developing kidney cancer in Evin prison.

The lead plaintiff is a Quebec woman who says she developed cancer in 2012 after having used talc - based products from 1962 until 2013.

Seeing a cell of life developing within my body after having seen abnormal cancer cells restored my faith in many ways.

After standardizing the data for age, menopausal status, and economic standing of her country (so that these factors did not influence the results), this study concluded that a woman who breastfed for 12 months in her life reduced her risk of developing breast cancer by 4.3 %.

Several years ago, after an acquaintance asked me if I'd heard about the controversy, I Googled «cow's milk» and «kids» and a new world opened up to me — one that hysterically warned me that cow's milk would cause my child to develop diabetes, obesity, and cancer, among other lovely things.

Ovarian cancer is more common in older women and usually develops after menopause.

The press conference came several days after the death of police officer Marcy Simms, who died of lung cancer she developed after being exposed to the Ground Zero site.

The advert uses a series of tragic stories from the UK, including Katie Brickell, who developed terminal cervical cancer after being refused a smear test.

ELMHURST — A local NYPD sergeant was mourned this week after succumbing to cancer he developed after working at Ground Zero, family and the NYPD said.

Specifically, «The bill expands coverage to volunteer firefighters with at least five years of service who developed lymphoma or leukemia after their service, and coverage for volunteer firefighters with at least 10 years of service who develop stomach, skin, breast, prostate and other reproductive cancers after their service,» according to information from Senator Jacobs» office.

We are currently in the process of developing a nose structure for a patient whose nose has been lost though cancer, using a resorbable plate mesh, rather than titanium which needs to be removed after.»

The type, intensity and duration of immunosuppressive therapy contribute to the risk of developing skin cancer, such as melanoma, after transplantation.

Researchers found that people with cancer and those with autoimmune disorders were more likely to develop GBS after surgery.

To Kalish, the patients who are diagnosed with the syndrome after they develop cancer, like the little girl whose adrenal tumor set off alarm bells, have her wondering whether the incidence of Beckwith - Wiedemann is higher than reported.

In all, 153 (0.24 %) people developed stomach cancer after triple therapy.

In science news around the world, NASA's Cassini mission is about to take its final plunge into the atmosphere of Saturn after 13 years providing an unprecedented view of the planet and its moons, a fight over whether to preserve or develop of one Europe's oldest gold mining sites heats up again, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves the first cancer gene therapy for people, a U.S. court gives a green light to a $ 1 billion lawsuit brought by the Guatemalan victims and survivors of mid — 20th century syphilis experiments by research institutions including Johns Hopkins University, and more.

People who had cancer within the past six months were seven times more likely to develop GBS after surgery than those who did not have cancer.

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.

Although this anecdotal report of five women developing breast cancer after hormone treatment might appear concerning, the editors highlight in their accompanying editorial that it is well below the estimated number of women in the population who would be statistically likely to develop breast cancer.

Scientists from the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, US, have revealed a communication system between the knee joint and developing bones in mice, which controls bone growth during early development and after injury.

Being overweight or obese has been known to increase the risk of multiple myeloma, a cancer of the plasma cells in the blood and bone marrow that develops more often after age 60.

Until recently, Ain was renowned for a highly prized repository of 18 immortal cancer cell lines, which he developed by harvesting tissue from his patients» tumors after removal, carefully culturing them to everlasting life in vials.

After eight years, the risk for developing colon cancer was double for women who received radiation compared to those who had not.

In 2001 the trend reversed: Breast cancer rates initially dipped gradually, but dropped sharply in mid-2002, when many women in the U.S. stopped hormone replacement therapy after the Women's Health Initiative, a large clinical trial involving estrogen - progestin therapy, was stopped after it was determined that the risks — most notably the increased likelihood of developing breast cancer — outweighed the benefits.

In breast cancer up to 12,000 patients a year develop this form of the disease, often several years after initial diagnosis of a breast lump.

«There has been tremendous interest in developing new, effective strategies to prevent cancer recurrence after surgery.

After a successful postdoc at the Ontario Cancer Institute, where he developed a proprietary platform for the discovery of novel cancer therapeutic agents, Bray was asked to join the former Amgen Research Institute in Toronto (now called the Advanced Medical Discovery Institute and no longer part of the parent company) as the head of their quantitative biology group and act as liaison to Amgen Inc. in CalifCancer Institute, where he developed a proprietary platform for the discovery of novel cancer therapeutic agents, Bray was asked to join the former Amgen Research Institute in Toronto (now called the Advanced Medical Discovery Institute and no longer part of the parent company) as the head of their quantitative biology group and act as liaison to Amgen Inc. in Califcancer therapeutic agents, Bray was asked to join the former Amgen Research Institute in Toronto (now called the Advanced Medical Discovery Institute and no longer part of the parent company) as the head of their quantitative biology group and act as liaison to Amgen Inc. in California.

Researchers have identified a group of immune system genes that may play a role in how long people can live after developing a common type of brain cancer called glioblastoma multiforme, a tumor of the glial cells in the brain.

A drug recently developed by Pfizer, crizotinib, targets ALK and is currently given to patients with ALK positive lung cancer when their cancer has worsened after initial chemotherapy.

«Cancer patients who are obese and diabetic are an already more vulnerable group of individuals when it comes to surgery, as they have an increased risk of developing complications both during and after surgery.

The risk of developing 22 of the most common cancers, which represent 90 % of the cancers diagnosed in the UK, was measured according to BMI after adjusting for individual factors such as age, sex, smoking status, and socioeconomic status.

After an average of 4.9 years of follow up, 228 patients, or 21 percent, were diagnosed with heart failure and 28 of those patients, or 12.3 percent, developed cancer.

After an average follow - up period of 5.6 years (with some women followed as long as 16 years), 186 women developed either ovarian, fallopian tube, or peritoneal cancer.

Researchers used IL - 15 to develop a whole tumor cell vaccine to target breast (TS / A) and prostate (TRAMP - C2) cancer cells in animal models; results showed that tumor cells stopped growing after the vaccine was introduced and that beneficial effects were enhanced further when IL - 15Rα was co-produced by the vaccine cells.

In this new study, they looked at cancer risk in patients who developed heart failure after their first heart attack.

People who develop heart failure after their first heart attack have a greater risk of developing cancer when compared to first - time heart attack survivors without heart failure, according to a study in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

Patients who developed heart failure after heart attack were prescribed the same medications at discharge as those who were not, so researchers concluded treatment for heart attack was not likely responsible for the higher rate of cancer in heart failure patients.

Zheng and his colleagues became interested in annexin A2's exact role in cancer spread after noting a curious effect in a trial of the pancreatic cancer vaccine GVAX, first developed by Johns Hopkins researchers.

«After screening a natural compound library, we developed an unbiased look at combinations of nutrients that have a better effect on prostate cancer than existing drugs,» says corresponding author Stefano Tiziani, assistant professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences and Dell Pediatric Research Institute at UT Austin.

It is commonly thought that bladder cancers that develop after pelvic radiation tend to be aggressive, with high grades and stages, but this study found that the types, grades, and stages of bladder cancer that developed were similar in patients treated with and without radiation therapy.

The cancer mainly develops in older women, after menopause — about half are 63 or older.

A multiple myeloma patient whose cancer had stopped responding after nine different treatment regimens experienced a complete remission after receiving an investigational personalized cellular therapy known as CTL019 developed by a team at the University of Pennsylvania.

A researcher at the Cardiovascular Institute (CVI) at Rhode Island, The Miriam and Newport hospitals has found that a new class of drugs, originally developed to treat cancer, reduces sudden cardiac death risk after a heart attack.

The group with the longest telomeres had 33 percent higher odds of developing any cancer than the group with the shortest telomeres, after taking into account the effect of age, sex, education and smoking habits.

Rodriguez signed up on a seven - month contract, but enjoyed his time at HopeLab so much that he rejoined after he completed his master's in education, helping research and develop HopeLab's Re-Mission 2 games collection, in which players fight cancer.

After a median follow - up of 7.2 years, 144 participants developed breast cancer, and 69 died, of which four were due to breast cancer.

Half of the group consisted of people who went on to develop colon or breast cancer 5 to 7 years after first joining the study, whereas the other half remained healthy.

Researchers at Oregon State University have developed a new way to selectively insert compounds into cancer cells — a system that will help surgeons identify malignant tissues and then, in combination with phototherapy, kill any remaining cancer cells after a tumor is removed.

After following 154 men with low - risk prostate cancer for 38 months, the investigators found that low levels of free testosterone were significantly linked with an increased risk of developing more aggressive disease.