Sentences with phrase «early stages of the disease»

Data also revealed that only 12.5 per cent of patients come for treatment in early stages of the disease.

This means that in very early stages of the disease the damage to the thyroid has already begun while the thyroid antibodies may not be present yet.

Several research teams are now developing ways to trace it to the tissue from which it originated, hoping to detect early stages of a disease or monitor its progression.

With your help, we can diagnose and address early stages of some diseases, which can be fatal if revealed too late.

Surgery is often indicated in order to remove the affected tissue, and in conjunction with chemotherapy and radiation a complete cure is often possible in early stages of the disease.

A wellness exam can help ensure your pet's health and detect early stages of disease.

Detection / Diagnosis: Pancreatic cancer is very difficult to detect or to diagnose at early stages of disease.

The drug, bexarotene, was found to reduce levels of the neurotoxic protein amyloid - beta in experimental mice with late - stage Alzheimer's but to increase levels during early stages of disease.

She states, «Up until now, we've focused on cats with early stages of the disease with the hope of slowing disease progression.

Darzalex, however, has not yet reached its peak potential as the drug moves into earlier stages of the disease and is being tested on solid tumours like lung cancer.

A multicountry study has found that HIV - infected people who start antiretroviral (ARV) treatment at earlier stages of the disease lowered their risk of transmitting the virus to their sexual partners by 96 %.

Dr. Niewczas stresses that at the time of the sample collection kidney function was normal in the vast majority of the study subjects, suggesting that these molecules could either mark early stages of the disease or actually contribute to it.

Remember, regardless of how diligent you are, there is a likelihood your pet will need a procedure at some point in their life — unfortunately, some pets need them every year — but routine care slows the process of dental disease and facilitates discovery of dental issues at a much earlier stage of disease.

For horses in early stages of disease with clinical signs, the Thyrotropin Releasing Hormone (TRH) Stimulation test may be performed (with ACTH levels measured before and after administration of TRH) as this test may be more helpful in diagnosing early disease.

Those are the cells that respond whenever the room gets dimmer or there are decrements in light; those are the ones that appear to be vulnerable at early stages of the disease and those are also the ones that are going to die first.

Cats with mild or moderate forms (or perhaps those with early stages of the disease) often benefit from increased dietary fiber, administration of laxatives or stool softeners of various kinds, and drugs called prokinetic agents (like cisapride) that stimulate the muscles of the colon.

Published in Kidney International, the study is distinctive in examining the metabolism of patients while they were still healthy or in very early stages of the disease, and in the breadth of metabolic factors analyzed, says lead author Monika Niewczas, M.D., Ph.D..

Comparing a new patient's information with millions of other cases, Patient Rescue might be able to predict that they are in the early stages of a disease that has not yet become symptomatic, for example.

The trial has also included 10 HER -2-negative breast cancer patients, all of them in early stages of the disease.

However, even for an expert, it can be difficult to tell how severe the disease is from the sketches alone, especially at the early stages of the disease.

Electrophysiological testing to measure peripheral nerve conduction properties is not a viable alternative because current methods lack the sensitivity required to detect damage to small, unmyelinated fibers, especially in early stages of disease.

In the early stages of the disease, however, tau proteins undergo changes that nudge them off microtubules.

Even though microglia do not appear helpful — in mice they do not even gobble amyloid in early stages of disease — that does not mean they can not help under the right conditions by morphing back into their cleanup role, Town says.

The AUC for those patients was 0.87 for Stage I / IIA, 0.93 for Stage IIB and 0.89 for all early stages of the disease using the combination, pointing to a potential ability to detect disease in those who lack either of those known risk - raising conditions.

While patients elsewhere are far more likely to get diagnosed and treated in the early stages of the disease, sufferers of possible tick - borne illnesses in the South are left guessing at what is wrong and how to treat it.

The team is now planning a larger trial in people who have earlier stages of the disease.

Ideally, Hummon and Buechler's test will enable the clinical team to determine which patients with the early stages of the disease are likely to benefit from more aggressive treatment versus those who do not need strong chemotherapy.

In the early stages of a disease outbreak, health officials have pressing questions.

Exercise on land is known to have a positive effect on body composition and walking speed but often people with knee OA avoid physical activity due to pain, even in the early stage of the disease.

«Our findings show that a specific genetic marker (known as allele * 2 of the HS1, 2 A enhancer region) influences not just disease activity in RA patients, but also response to therapy in the early stages of their disease,» said lead investigator Dr Gabriele Di Sante of the Institute of Rheumatology and Related Sciences, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy.

The researchers tracked two abnormal proteins that indicate development of Alzheimer's, and they detected the early stages of the disease in babies less than a year old.

«However, these pharmacological and surgical treatments address the patient's symptoms, such as to improve mobility functions in the early stages of the disease, but the treatments can not slow down or stop the disease process,» Prof Kim explains.

While vision screening probably isn't harmful, some age - related eye conditions like macular degeneration and cataracts may be difficult to detect before patients have pronounced symptoms because people in the early stages of these diseases may still be able to read eye charts used to test vision.

McCauley, looking at the earliest stages of the disease, wanted to take Hawkins» purified lung cells to the next step and figure out how they became airway cells.

The entorhinal region is one of the first parts of the brain affected by Alzheimer's disease, so the findings may also help to explain why people start to get lost in the early stages of the disease.

People in the study with more severe stages of the disease did not have lower levels of caffeine in the blood, suggesting that the decrease occurs from the earliest stages of the disease, according to David G. Munoz, MD, of the University of Toronto in Canada, who wrote an editorial accompanying the study.

Researchers and doctors are excited about the discovery, as there are no oral therapies approved in Canada for use at this very early stage of the disease.

«Detection of cancer cells in blood in the early stage of a disease is difficult, because concentrations of the cancer cells are extremely small,» Harald Fuchs, Section Head of the KIT Institute of Nanotechnology (INT), holder of a chair at the Physical Institute of the University of Münster (WWU), and Scientific Director of the Center for NanoTechnology (CeNTech), Münster, explains.

However, in the early stages of disease these «biomarkers» can be difficult to detect, as they are relatively rare.

The test subjects in these current «PEARL» studies were all in the early stages of the disease, i.e. before liver cirrhosis had developed.

Participants enrolled in the Study in Parkinson Disease of Exercise (SPARX) were at an early stage of the disease and not taking Parkinson's medication, ensuring the results of the study were related to the exercise and not affected by medication.

That's why it's important to take falls seriously, particularly at an early stage of the disease,» says researcher and special physiotherapist Ylva Hivand Hiorth of Stavanger University Hospital.

She has found that those who have a sub-group not dominated by tremors often fall at an early stage of the disease.

Dr. Zhang points out that the unique value of this study derives from the ability to perform longitudinal assessments of cognition in PD patients over a long time period and access to data from a large cohort that began when patients were in the earliest stage of disease.

As well as establishing that falls at an early stage of the disease are relatively common, she has also identified the risk factors that show who is more likely to suffer an early fall.

Half of multiple myeloma patients diagnosed in the earliest stage of the disease don't survive beyond about five years after initial treatment because the cancer becomes resistant to treatments.

This lack of new memories, along with the preservation of older ones, may be what leads to the outdated sense of self — or «petrified self» — often seen in the early stages of the disease.

The response to the drug is typically good in the early stages of the disease but diminishes over time for reasons that are not understood.

Quercetin did not prevent all of the symptoms associated with the disorder but researchers hope that it could offer a useful treatment option in the early stages of disease.

«This raises hope that triheptanoin may be able to preserve motor neuron and muscle function when treatment is started at an early stage of the disease.