Sentences with phrase «finding additional cancer»

The results showed that MarginProbe ® was up to three times as effective in finding additional cancer on the margins of tumorous tissue as traditional methods, such as inspecting and imaging the tissue.

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After an hour - long informational session, a follow - up questionnaire found that nearly all attendees were able to correctly answer questions about the rationale for screening, the difference between the need for additional testing and a cancer diagnosis, the benefit of negative screenings as a baseline for future comparisons, and the continued importance of physical examinations.

«With this discovery in our hands, we'd now like to try to find out which additional immune - cell properties cancer cells have and study how they affect the metastatic process,» says Dr Fuxe.

The findings of this study may be useful for planning future support programs for cancer patients, and can provide additional information to guide programs for people with specific cancer types.

According to the researchers these findings may suggest additional targets for medical therapy to minimize morbidity and mortality from this potentially devastating cancer.

Specifically, they found that chemotherapy alone leads to two types of dormant cancer cells that are not killed outright and become resistant to additional chemotherapy, but when combined with immunotherapy, a majority of dormant cells also is destroyed.

«Recent studies have reported supplemental cancer detection rates of 1.9 per 1,000 women screened with automated whole breast ultrasound and 1.2 to 2.8 per 1,000 women screened with digital breast tomosynthesis, so our finding of an additional 8.8 cancers per 1,000 women makes MBI a very compelling option for women who elect supplemental screening,» says Dr. Rhodes.

Cucinotta said the findings show a tremendous need for additional studies focused on cosmic ray exposures to tissues that dominate human cancer risks, and that these should begin prior to long - term space missions outside the Earth's geomagnetic sphere.

«These findings suggest that MBI has a more favorable balance of additional invasive cancers detected versus additional biopsies incurred relative to other supplemental screening options.»

Dent currently has another manuscript in press at the journal Cancer Biology and Therapy, which is a follow - up study detailing additional findings from his experiments.

In our day and age, when growing numbers of women of reproductive age are diagnosed with thyroid cancer and when fertility problems are rampant, these findings should serve as an additional consideration for physicians contemplating radioactive iodine for their patients,» said senior author Karen Tordjman, MD, associate professor of medicine at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine of Tel Aviv University.

Lee believes that the study findings provide additional insight about the «crosstalk» between cancer metabolism and cell cycle.

«Additional research is needed to understand cancer - site specific and racial differences in findings,» wrote the authors.

The finding may help scientists unravel a paradox: Cells with extra chromosomes grow slower than cells with the usual two copies of each chromosome, but cancer cells, which grow quickly, often have additional chromosomes.

Because the findings contradict earlier studies, additional research is needed to determine whether a true link exists between multiple sclerosis and cancer.

Additional DNA mistakes were found in cancer cells lodged in the ovary near the fallopian tube and in metastatic sites.

A study has found no increase in overall survival but a reduction in breast cancer recurrence when additional radiation is given to the lymph nodes as well as the standard treatment of whole - breast irradiation after breast - conserving surgery.

Velculescu cautions that medical practice may not change much until additional studies validate their findings, and there are ongoing clinical trials studying the removal of fallopian tubes instead of ovaries in women with cancer - causing, hereditary BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations.

An additional set of 18 prostate cancer tissue samples was analyzed by qPCR and five lncRNAs were found to be significantly higher in prostate tumor tissues compared with matched normal tissues.

«Our findings point to two potential impacts from additional research — analyzing the diversity and composition of the microbiome to predict response to immunotherapy and modulating the gut microbiome to enhance treatment,» said Wargo, senior researcher on the project and co-leader of the Melanoma Moon Shot ™, part of MD Anderson's Moon Shots Program ™ to reduce cancer deaths by accelerating development of therapies from scientific discoveries.

«Lung cancer clinical trial finds lung function without additional imaging.»

«If our findings are confirmed by additional studies, they may open doors to the development of targeted therapies against the tumor subtypes more likely to affect African Americans and potentially help reduce racial disparities in breast cancer.»

The NYGC and its founding member institutions are conducting additional studies involving Watson to help accelerate the discovery of potentially actionable sequence variants in various types of cancer, including an ongoing study that involves DNA and RNA from a larger cohort of glioblastoma patients, and a study of 200 patients with different types of cancer.

Anil Potti, M.D., Duke University School of Medicine: Based on the reports of investigations conducted by Duke University School of Medicine (Duke) and additional analysis conducted by ORI in its oversight review, ORI found that Dr. Anil Potti, former Associate Professor of Medicine, Duke, engaged in research misconduct in research supported by National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institutes of Health (NIH), grant R01 HL072208 and National Cancer Institute (NCI), NIH, grants R01 CA136530, R01 CA131049, K12 CA100639, R01 CA106520, and U54 CA112952.

Drugs used to block copper absorption for a rare genetic condition may find an additional use as a treatment for certain types of cancer, researchers at Duke Medicine report.

That's where these findings will be directly implemented in additional research, and also in the context of clinical trials,» said Douglas A. Levine, M.D., head of the Gynecology Research Laboratory at Memorial Sloan - Kettering Cancer Center, New York, and a co-leader in the study.

Another collaboration was unfolding among the cancer geneticists, sequencing experts, clinical researchers, and surgical oncologists at Johns Hopkins, MD Anderson, and Baylor College of Medicine to study 32 pairs of head and neck tumor and normal tissue samples by whole - exome sequencing and validate the findings in an additional 88 samples.

Now researchers are finding additional mutated metabolic enzymes that can behave as oncogenes, says Chi Dang, a medical oncologist and cancer biologist who directs the Abramson Cancer Center, and such discoveries are helping convince skeptics that alterations in metabolism are not mere «epiphenomena» or side efcancer biologist who directs the Abramson Cancer Center, and such discoveries are helping convince skeptics that alterations in metabolism are not mere «epiphenomena» or side efCancer Center, and such discoveries are helping convince skeptics that alterations in metabolism are not mere «epiphenomena» or side effects.

«In about 20 percent of cases, surgeons find that they have to reoperate to remove additional tissue,» notes lead author Freya Schnabel, MD, director of breast surgery at NYU Langone's Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center.

April 10, 2018 - The technology is proven to be up to 40 percent more accurate than 2D mammography in locating invasive cancers, as well as reducing false - positive findings and the need for additional tests.

This gene finding may allow scientists to identify patients with this aggressive form of the cancer and target them with additional therapies.

After adjusting for common factors that influence breast cancer risk, Henderson and colleagues found that women whose mammograms were classified as false - positive who were referred for additional imaging had a 39 percent increased chance of developing subsequent breast cancer during the 10 - year follow - up period, compared with women with a true - negative result.

Recognizing these findings can alert you to the need to analyze a different or additional cancer risk gene.

It's importance is finds additional support in the fact that one of the main causes for many serious diseases, cancer included, is chronic acidity.

An additional finding from the study may have contributed to the apparent cancer link.

In the meantime, additional research has found that flaxseed and other lignan sources may actually reduce prostate cancer risk and improve outcomes in men receiving treatment for the disease (8, 9).

WEDNESDAY, April 12, 2017 (HealthDay News)-- Close to half of breast cancer patients who chose to have a double mastectomy after genetic testing didn't actually have the gene mutations known to raise the risk of additional cancers, a new survey found.

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