Sentences with phrase «for tumour progression»
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This image highlights the key finding: that PTEN directly «destroys» PI (3,4) P2 and that PI (3,4) P2 is a marker for tumour growth and progression.
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«Naked mole rats have an additional barrier in the way of tumour progression,» says Seluanov, who presented the results at the Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence meeting in Cambridge, UK, last week.
«Our results indicate it is a promising agent for clinical trials, and a as an add - on to more conventional therapies, to prevent tumour recurrence, further disease progression and metastasis.»
«The new knowledge we have gained facilitates the design of prophylactic and therapeutic measures for delaying tumour progression and extending cancer - free periods in RDEB,» says Venugopal Rao Mittapalli, the first author of the study.
For patients with cervical cancer that has recurred after treatment or has spread elsewhere in the body, adding the experimental drug cediranib to standard chemotherapy improves tumour shrinkage and adds a modest improvement in progression - free survival, researchers report at the ESMO 2014 Congress in Madrid.
«Similarly 71 drugs approved by the FDA from 2002 to 2014 for solid tumours have resulted in median gains in progression - free and overall survival of only 2.5 and 2.1 months, respectively,» he says adding, «Also, only 42 per cent met the American Society of Clinical Oncology Cancer Research Committee's criteria for meaningful results for patients.»
Because the tumour is located in an area of the brain which makes surgery risky, Alix is on a watchful waiting program, with brain scans every six months to monitor for progression.