Sentences with phrase «disease at later stages»

But while this approach is good at diagnosing the disease at later stages, it can miss the disease early on when antibody levels are low.

The detection of melanoma at its most curable stages can result in decades of high - quality life saved, versus the treatment of this terrible disease at late stages, which offers several months of life extension, at best.»

Not exact matches

Radiologists came from across the hospital to peer at the results, disbelieving: A perfectly healthy 21 - year - old nonsmoker with no family history of the disease had lung cancer, which three days later would be diagnosed as stage IV, the most advanced form.

Rather than looking at what distinguished two forms of retinitis pigmentosa, or RP, a progressive blinding disease, they looked for what they had in common: specifically, what genes were expressed at the later stages of disease.

However, the researchers found that stopping neurogenesis before the development of seizures had a long - lasting effect, suppressing chronic seizure frequency for nearly one year, even at a late stage of the disease.

«If we could perhaps modulate these pathways and prolong survival of photoreceptor cells, we might be able to delay any further degeneration even when intervening at these later stages of disease.»

«We wanted to identify some potential therapeutic targets that are common not just to one but to multiple forms of retinitis pigmentosa at late - stage disease, when it is more likely to be clinically diagnosed in a patient population.»

A drug used to treat men with late - stage prostate cancer proved effective in stemming progression of the disease in research participants who had not yet received chemotherapy and extended their survival, according to results from a multi-national Phase III clinical trial led by the Knight Cancer Institute at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU).

Breast cancer cells that spread to other parts of the body break off and leave the primary tumour at late stages of disease development, scientists from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and their collaborators have found.

Pancreatic cancer is a particularly devastating disease because of the difficulty of identifying it at an early stage, and the difficulty of treating it when discovered at a late stage.

«Early stage disease is curable,» adds co-author Bernadette Cracchiolo, director of gynecologic oncology at the school, «but late stage and recurrent disease have limited treatment options.

In some cases, late onset of the disease can also occur if the infection is not detected at an early stage or if it is not treated with antibiotics.

The findings may help explain why women with bladder cancer are often diagnosed at a later stage in the disease and have worse mortality than men.

«The dBET1 and the dFKBP12 compounds are presently in a late stage of lead optimization for therapeutic development in both cancer and non-malignant diseases,» says Prem Das, PhD, chief research business development officer at Dana - Farber.

Since many of those patients are likely to be given the drugs at later stages of their disease, much of this cost is likely unavoidable, even if it gets delayed.

here is epidemiological evidence that links type B coxsackie virus (CVB) infection with heart disease, and research published on July 31st in PLOS Pathogens now suggests a mechanism by which early infection impairs the heart's ability to tolerate stress at later stages of life.

What is the latest biological stage of Alzheimer's disease at which secretase inhibition slows progression?

This poor prognosis is partially due to the fact that most patients are not diagnosed until they are already at a late stage of the disease.

The goal was to investigate the ability of J147 to rescue cognitive impairment at a late stage in the disease as an indicator of its potential to rescue cognitive impairment in humans with AD.

Data presented here demonstrate that J147 has the ability to rescue cognitive deficits when administered at a late stage in the disease.

Results from these behavioral assays show that J147 has the ability to rescue the cognitive decline and disinhibition phenotype associated with AD when administered at an extremely late stage in the disease progression when pathology is already far advanced.

I've been working for the last 5 years in trying to bring image resolution to «in vivo» imaging comparable to microscopy because right now we believe there is a disconnect between the clinical imaging that looks at very microscopic features of the eye that are informative of the disease but usually at very late stages and the exquisite work that molecular biologists are doing.

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer mortality worldwide, suffering from a late stage of disease at the time of diagnosis and a paucity of effective therapeutic strategies to treat advanced tumours.

«Much to our surprise, the trial showed that patients receiving standard therapy compared to those receiving cetuximab with standard therapy had no difference in outcomes,» said study author Dr. Steven Alberts, a professor of oncology at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Rochester, Minn. «It also indicates that disease in earlier stages may be different than diseases in later stages.»

While different types of cancers have different survival rates, in general, it can be challenging to treat the disease if it was detected at this late stage.

This is despite evidence the drug doesn't work that well, at least in later stages of the disease.

But living against the clock — eating late at night or working overnight — may set the stage for weight gain and chronic disease.

Because neoplasia (cancer) can cause orbital disease and because later steps in the diagnostic approach may require general anesthesia, your veterinarian may suggest some preliminary blood tests and a chest radiograph at this stage.

If that's the case, then owners of cats with mesothelioma may be at risk for developing the disease at some later stage.

However, over weeks, months or even years, when the cat is in later stages of the disease (secondary viremia), the infected cat's health may deteriorate to the point at which he or she has recurrent illness punctuated with phases of wellness.

Because of their location, oral malignant tumors are often detected late in the course of the disease process and have commonly progressed to Stage II at the time of diagnosis.

It is always better to prevent a disease, or to catch it early, than to have to treat it at a later stage.

However, due to the fact that the disease is typically diagnosed at a late stage, treatment rarely stops the progression of the disease, and regression is also untypical.