Sentences with phrase «for other cancer types»

The tumor suppressor, which could be useful as a biomarker to help diagnose and monitor treatment for liver cancer, could also be relevant for other cancer types.

Not exact matches

Novartis and Gilead Sciences already received the first two approvals of CAR T for other types of cancer.

Among others, he's invested in the cervical cancer screening tool MobileODT and Biomeme, which claims to do genetic testing for certain types of diseases within an hour.

While it has shown promise for some types of tumors and become standard of care for others, researchers are just beginning to explore how different immunotherapy technologies can be applied to brain cancer.

It is also used with surgery and other medicines for managing certain types of thyroid cancer.

Other benefits of breastfeeding for mothers include protection against some types of cancers and osteoporosis.

• Breastmilk protects babies from illness and can also reduce the risk of Type 1 diabetes, childhood leukemia and other serious illnesses, as well as lowering the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS); • Breastfeeding is healthy for moms, including lowering their risk of Type 2 diabetes, breast cancer, ovarian cancer and postpartum depression; • Breastfeeding saves families money on the cost of formula and illness; and • Breastfeeding saves insurers and employers (including the military) money on the expenses of medical care and lost workplace productivity (both due to infant illness).

In August of 2009, researchers reported that women who have a mother, sister, or other type of close relative who suffered from breast cancer cut their risk for developing the disease by 59 % if they breastfeed their babies.

That number includes people treated for leukemia and other types of cancer, blood disorders and immune diseases.

They also report that inhibition of the FA pathway coupled with chemotherapy maybe be useful for treating other types of cancer.

A new cancer blood test worked better for some types than others, and caught only 43 % of stage 1 cancers.

«We'd like to extend this further to examine for driver genes in other types of lung cancer, such as squamous cell lung cancer.»

DeCODE genetics is known for discovering genetic risk factors for type 2 diabetes, early - onset heart attack, and breast cancer, among others.

This therapy may also be used for other types of cancer.

T - rays offer hope for improved detection of cancer, including skin cancers like melanoma, because they track molecular signatures of malignancy that are not easily seen with other types of scans.

Purushotham points out, «The feasibility of intraoperative CLI as shown in this study, in combination with the wide applicability of F -18-FDG across a range of solid cancers, provides a stepping stone for clinical evaluation of this technology in other solid cancer types that also experience incomplete tumor resection due to close or involved margins.»

This type of integrated care model is more common in other medical disciplines, Woolf - King said, citing pediatric oncology as an example in which recommendations have been established as part of standard care to assess mental health routinely and over time for parents of children with cancer.

Researchers do not know if the same thing would work for other types of cancer or cancer cells lodged in other body organs.

Using a pig model may help other scientists more effectively test treatments for colon cancer, type 2 diabetes and other chronic diseases.

But other types — colon and bladder cancer and certain leukemias, for example — are usually more aggressive and harder to treat.

A nanoparticle drug - delivery system that combines two complementary types of anticancer treatment could improve outcomes for patients with pancreatic cancer and other highly treatment - resistant tumors while decreasing toxicity.

Unlike other solid tumors, there has been limited progress in understanding the contribution of genetic risk factors to the development of uveal melanoma, researchers say, primarily due to the absence of comprehensive genetic data from patients as the large sample cohorts for this rare cancer type have not been available for research.

The authors state, «our findings support benefits of increased fruit and vegetable consumption for preventing long - term weight gain and provide further food - specific guidance for the prevention of obesity, a primary risk factor for type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, cancers, and many other health conditions.»

The MIT researchers have started a company to begin a larger clinical study for validating this approach, and they plan to investigate the possibility of using this technology for other types of cancer.

The findings, which were published online in the journal Cancer Cell, could ultimately lead to new targeted therapies for many other types of cancer carrying similar p53 mutaCancer Cell, could ultimately lead to new targeted therapies for many other types of cancer carrying similar p53 mutacancer carrying similar p53 mutations.

She also believes the drug could potentially be used for patients with other types of cancer that degrade bones, or for non-cancer-related osteoporosis.

«A number of other types of tumors have been shown to be driven by chimeras, but this one is unique — it codes for a kinase, an enzyme that modifies other proteins, that has not been identified in cancers.»

For this purpose, the researchers used the computational tool IMPACT, developed in the Tan lab, to sort functional from missense mutations and to cross-reference candidate mutations with those previously reported in other cancer types.

It could also make immunotherapy for other types of cancer more effective too.

Brose says the results of this study can have an immediate impact in clinical care, and several other studies are ongoing to find new uses for lenvatinib in other types of thyroid cancer.

The research team published the scientific work, which could also become relevant for other types of cancer, in the Journal Leukemia.

The study, a retrospective survival analysis, included 229 patients who participated in two randomized, controlled clinical trials focused on relief of constipation for patients receiving palliative care for various types of late - stage cancer and other terminal diseases.

Additionally, the prognosis for patients with TNBC is usually poorer than for those with other types of breast cancers.

The research team is also developing and testing the system for use by people with other types of cancer and long - term conditions such as heart failure.

To explore this idea, Hopkins oncologists Dung Le, Luis Diaz, and others looked for mismatch repair mutations in tumor samples from patients with advanced colon cancer and other cancer types whose tumors had stopped responding to other treatments.

Some studies have detected differences in the types of gut bacteria in obese and thin people, for example, while others have shown that hunter - gatherers harbor more diverse gut bacteria than do people in the industrialized world — a difference that may protect preagricultural communities from Crohn's disease and colon cancer.

The single - cell - analysis approach could likely be employed to develop personalized treatment for many other types of cancer as well.

Despite the genetic turmoil this causes, scientists have disagreed for nearly a century about whether this abnormality and other types of genomic instability are the starting gun for cancer or merely collateral damage.

On the drinking - water front, researchers from IBM, Central Glass, Ltd., of Japan, the King Abdul Aziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) in Saudi Arabia, and the University of Texas at Austin are developing a new type of membrane that is resistant to damage by chlorine (the chemical most often used prevent bacterial growth in water supplies) and designed to filter out salts and harmful toxins in water such as arsenic (long - term exposure of which has been linked to cancer and other ailments) potentially creating new sources of drinking water.

For example, HPV - inactive tumors were 17 times more likely to contain TP53 gene mutations — which are common in other cancer types — than HPV - active cervical cancers.

«Agents that block the proteins — CDK4 / 6 inhibitors — have received Food and Drug administration approval for some patients with metastatic breast cancer, but they've also shown promise against others types of tumors in clinical trials.

CRI: What other types of cancer do you think would next be eligible for this type of therapy?

Most of these therapies are still in early - phase testing (phase I and II) for ovarian cancer, but their successful use in other types of cancers suggests that they may ultimately prove useful for ovarian cancer as well.

So a drug that targets one of these for a specific cancer, such as breast, may work against other types, such as lung.

These mutations are known for being strong indicators of breast and ovarian cancer risk, as well as other types of cancer.

The company is developing CAR T - cell immunotherapies for multiple myeloma, prostate and other cancer types, as well as gene therapies for orphan diseases.

He continues to investigate and optimize CAR T cell therapy, to make it more effective not only for blood cancers, but also to help patients with other types of cancer.

Additionally, the compound they have developed allows them to profile other cancer types and see if they are dependent on BFL - 1 for their survival.

The third one is that you can get memory and that's the hallmark of the immune system that doesn't exist for any other type of cancer therapy.

Compared with ever - users of other types of antihypertensive medications, users of short - acting CCBs had a hazard ratio (HR) for development of pancreatic cancer of 1.66, which was significant after adjustment for a number of relevant factors.