Sentences with phrase «first curative therapy»

In 2010, the first curative therapy for metastatic melanoma, which normally does not respond to chemotherapy, was approved by the FDA.

Since the breakthrough in 2010 with the first curative therapy for melanoma, funding became widely available from government, industry and philanthropic organizations.

Not exact matches

For his part, Collins, who has led NIH since 2009 and been kept on by the Trump administration, pointed to an array of promising NIH activities, including the development of new technologies to provide insights into human brain circuitry and function through the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neuroethologies (BRAIN initiative) and the use of the gene - editing tool CRISPR - Cas9 to correct mutations and clear the way to develop and test a «curative therapy» for the first molecular disease: sickle cell disease.

That first year on the drug may provide an optimal window to collect T cells from patients and subsequently administer a potentially curative T cell therapy, the authors said.

Presenting these results at the 3rd ESTRO Forum in Barcelona, Spain, today (Monday) Professor James Morris, from the Department of Radiation Oncology, Vancouver Cancer Centre, British Columbia Cancer Agency (BCCA), Vancouver, Canada, will say that the ASCENDE - RT1 trial is the first and only existing trial comparing low - dose - rate prostate brachytherapy (LDR - PB) for the curative treatment of prostate cancer with any other method of radiation therapy delivery.