Sentences with phrase «different cancer diseases»

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They're really heavily intertwined with our metabolism and have an enormous impact on our processing of food and on our health and disease and they've been linked to many different diseases to obesity, to diabetes, to heart disease, and even to cancer and Urological disease.

That last step is the most important, but also one of the most challenging because «when you try to sample a large population of people who you already know have a certain disease, like cancer, it's really difficult to pinpoint all the different biomarkers that will make you fairly sure of the person's illness is detected regardless of environmental conditions,» he says.

We included prospective studies that provided hazard ratios (HRs) with 95 % confidence intervals (CI) for at least three categories (including the reference group) of milk consumption in relation to mortality from all causes, overall cardiovascular disease, or overall cancer, We omitted studies that only reported results for total milk products or combined non-fermented and fermented milk because non-fermented and fermented milk may have different associations with mortality.

Sea vegetables have their own share of unique phytonutrients and antioxidants that help lower risk for heart disease and many different cancers.

The many nutrients in green beans can help you prevent a number of different conditions, including Alzheimer's, atherosclerosis, diabetic heart disease, colon cancer, asthma, arthritis, acne, ear infections, and maybe even colds and flu's.

But the five companies that the state selected in 2015 to get marijuana into the hands of people suffering from debilitating and sometimes terminal diseases such as cancer, AIDS and multiple sclerosis tell a different story.

Cancer Research UK carries out world - class research to improve understanding of the disease and find out how to prevent, diagnose and treat different kinds of caCancer Research UK carries out world - class research to improve understanding of the disease and find out how to prevent, diagnose and treat different kinds of cancercancer..

«By studying the ways different proteins like keratin dynamically change within a cell, we can better understand the progression of cancers and other diseases,» they say.

At five years, disease - free survival was no different between the two groups, with 85.3 percent of men in the traditional group being cancer - free, compared to 86.3 percent of men in the shorter regimen group.

At one time it was thought cancer was all one disease, she says, but understanding the different types led to better treatments.

Professor Nigel Bundred, from The University of Manchester and University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust, who led the study, said: «We know that different subtypes of invasive breast cancer have different levels of disease recurrence.

Cancer is a heterogeneous disease, with genetic variations occurring between different types of tumors and different patients.

Studies of treatments for autoimmune and rare genetic diseases as well as for different forms of cancer are among those potentially affected.

Research from Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey shows that the RUNX2 protein, which regulates the transcription of genetic messages responsible for the different functions of cells, may play a role in melanoma cell growth and spread and could serve as a therapeutic target for the disease.

A molecule that helps cells stick together is significantly over-produced in two very different diseases — rheumatoid arthritis and a variety of cancers, including breast and brain tumors, concludes a new study.

Cancer is a group of more than 100 different diseases.

«We showed it could predict 90 different diseases, ranging from schizophrenia to cancer to diabetes, with very high accuracy — without ever having talked to an expert,» Dudley says.

Health benefits associated with regular physical activity include protection from cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes and different types of cancer.

On the other hand, many studies conclude that appropriate carotenoid levels in the diet can play a positive role in protecting against ocular and cardiovascular diseases and different types of cancer, among others.

Chronically - ill cancer patients have different exercise limitations than their healthy counterparts and other concurrent diseases and high symptom burden add challenges in how best to study and implement physical activity programs in lung cancer patients.

While the 3D injectable scaffold is being tested in mice as a potential cancer vaccine, any combination of different antigens and drugs could be loaded into the scaffold, meaning it could also be used to treat infectious diseases that may be resistant to conventional treatments.

In other disease areas, the Parkinson's disease map and the Atlas of Cancer Signalling Network, have already begun the process of integrating knowledge about the involved mechanisms in order to understand the different subtypes of these diseases.

But this is a different disease and the treatments that work in sun - caused melanoma don't work in non-sun melanoma,» says William A. Robinson, MD, investigator at the CU Cancer Center and the Rella and Monroe Rifkin Endowed Chair of Medical Oncology at the CU School of Medicine.

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).

Within one year a major supplier was offering two different rat models of schizophrenia, two of Alzheimer's, and six of Parkinson's disease — in addition to cancer and other disease models.

Depending on the type of tissue, it plays different protective and mechanical roles, but it has also been shown to be involved in a number of diseases, including the growth of cancer tumors.

Having only people with head and neck cancers in the study eliminates the variability of a group suffering from different forms of the disease, but it also eliminates information about whether patients with other forms of cancer would show the same results.

Levels of microRNAs circulating within blood can be correlated to different states of diseases such as cancer, neurodegenerative disorders and cardiovascular conditions.

«This was unexpected and suggests fundamental but unrecognized differences in drug action in tumor cells from different individuals having the same disease — in this case, breast cancer.»

It is possible that the story may be different for those with pre-existing disease because there is evidence that in cancer patients, for instance, being slightly overweight is associated with lower risk, especially as cancer and its treatments can lead to unhealthy weight loss.

In addition to efforts to find a cure that is, say, specific for Alzheimer's and a different one for cancer, we might also be able to take a single preventative medicine that helps protect us from many or all age - related diseases.

Having witnessed the ravages of conventional cancer therapies — chemotherapy especially — Lynn was adamant about taking a different approach to her disease.

Due to the high efficiency of establishing organoid models from different tissues and diseases, such as cancer, organoid technology allows the generation of large living biobanks of tumor organoids that are amenable for middle - throughput drug screens and may allow personalized therapy design, as a complement to cell line and xenograft - based drug studies (7,19).

As a Wallenberg Clinical Scholar, Richard Rosenquist Brandell will use the infrastructure for large - scale investigation of cells and their genetic material at SciLifeLab to systematically study blood cancer cells from different groups of patients and stages of the disease.

Dr. Mucke expects that an effective Alzheimer's solution will include multiple therapies to address the numerous proteins implicated in the disease — including amyloid - beta, apoE4 and tau — in much the same way that hypertension, cancer and severe infections often require treatment with combinations of different remedies.

It is probably instructive to reflect on the fact that cancers used to be thought of as one disease, but the more we learn these cancers, say blood cancers, are found to be different types.

Recent genetic research in humans has implicated mutations in the gene for Tet2 as a risk factor for many different diseases of aging, including cancer, cardiovascular disease, and stroke.

She is registred to the National Order of Biologists in the province of Palermo; collaboration in research project from 2012 to 2015 at the Department of Biopathology and Biotechnology, University of Palermo, focusing the study on the identification of molecules capable to modulate intracellular metabolic pathways for the prevention and treatment of infectious, tumor and degenerative disease, in collaboration with Prof. Angela Santoni, University of Rome; collaboration in research project in 2011 at the hospital «Villa Sofia Cervello» of Palermo to study methods can cure the genetic defect that causes thalassemia through genetic engineering; she studies different mechanisms of the differentiation and the activation of human gammadelta T cells as effector cells of the immune response against cancer and infectious diseases; she investigates about the identification and development of biomarkers of resistance and susceptibility to Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection; Valentina Orlando has published 13 papers in peer reviewed journals and 3 comunications at national and international congress.

Researchers are also trying to learn about: - The level of MM - 121 that remains in the human body at different time points when MM - 121 is combined with docetaxel or pemetrexed - The relationship between the biomarker, heregulin, and cancer cell growth (disease progression) in people dosed only with docetaxel or pemetrexed.

They have demonstrated that what might be popularly thought of as a single disease — say, breast cancer — is in fact several different subtypes characterized by long lists of mostly different mutated genes.

Krogan believes that mutations in a few key networks of genes cause diseases like cancer, even though the individual genes that are mutated in tumors vary between different people and different types of cancer.

cancer Any of more than 100 different diseases, each characterized by the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells.

This is because there are so many ways to develop the disease, and many different pathways are altered in this cancer,» said Meyerson, who is also a professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School and the Dana - Farber Cancer Instcancer,» said Meyerson, who is also a professor of pathology at Harvard Medical School and the Dana - Farber Cancer InstCancer Institute.

«Our study also highlights that growth of normal cells and cancer cells is driven by different gene switches, suggesting that further work to find ways to control the activity of such disease - specific switches could lead to novel, highly specific approaches for therapeutic intervention», says Professor Jussi Taipale, who led the study.

Genome - wide association studies have revealed genomic regions associated with more than 200 diseases, including heart disease, diabetes and different types of cancer.

Chief among them is creation of a huge database of diagnostic and treatment information from all cancer patients that clinicians and researchers would use to study different disease types and respond with specially targeted drugs.

He worked for many years at highly renowned institutions in different research areas (inter alia, epigenetics, Alzheimer's Disease, cancer biology).

At that time, she says, she «found it fascinating that the immune system can actually recognize an enormous, almost unlimited pool of different antigens,» which are signature proteins or carbohydrates the immune system recognizes as signals of infectious diseases, damaged cells, or cancer.

For example, studies of cell signaling pathways in normal cells and cancer cells have contributed greatly to our knowledge about the disease, revealing molecular alterations that are shared among different types of cancer and pointing to possible strategies for treatment.

And if you have cancer, it's different than anyone else's disease, and it requires treatment that's as individual as you are.