Sentences with phrase «forms of aggressive cancers»

While some forms of aggressive cancers can not be cured, your pet's quality of life can be greatly enhanced when detected early.

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The senator from Arizona returned Monday to Washington, DC, less than a week after being diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer and less than two weeks after he had brain surgery.

On Tuesday, McCain returned to Washington shortly after doctors diagnosed him with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer.

This was on my mind when word came out last week that Hitchens was suffering from esophageal cancer, a particularly aggressive and unforgiving form of the disease.

Her form of cancer was incredibly aggressive and took her on a journey of pain, questions and discovering what truly mattered in life.

Michael Guglielmucci claimed that he wrote a song that God had given to him after hospital tests had revealed he was suffering from «quite an aggressive form of cancer».

«It's an aggressive form of bone cancer that's treated with a very harsh regime of chemotherapy and surgery or possible amputation of the affected limb.

On June 30th, I lost my mom to an extremely aggressive form of cancer, and during this most difficult time of my life I found myself in my garden.

Soon after learning she was pregnant with twins, doctors informed her that a form of cervical cancer had returned and it was aggressive.

Inflammatory breast cancer is a rare and aggressive form of breast cancer that occurs when malignant cells block the skin and lymph vessels of the...

Riley Manning - Burns suffers from an aggressive form of leukemia but his cancer is thankfully in remission

RIP Detective Kevin Meehan, a veteran of the Albany Police Department, who died yesterday after battling an aggressive form of cancer.

, who runs a family medical practice in Hoosick Falls and has noted rare and aggressive forms of cancer in patients, was not allowed to attend the meeting with the governor.

In December, the Times Union reported many residents in the village and town believe their community has been afflicted by rare and aggressive forms of cancer and thyroid disease.

Dr. Marcus E. Martinez, who runs a family medical practice in Hoosick Falls, told the Times Union last year that he and his father, who opened the practice in 1956, have noted rare and aggressive forms of cancer in patients, as well as thyroid disease and other health problems.

Medical opinion also varies on how the kind of breast cancer Lee had, a noninvasive form called ductal carcinoma in situ, should be treated, but Lee is adamant about early mammograms and aggressive treatment.

Bob Adair, 61, a carpenter for the Department of Sanitation, said losing his paid days off was a hardship after his wife underwent shoulder surgery and he had treatment for an aggressive form of prostate cancer.

Then he was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer.

The triggering of PARP enables cancer cells to withstand anti-hormone therapy treatment, causing cells to cultivate and develop into a more aggressive form.

Metastasis, the strategy adopted by tumor cells to transform into an aggressive form of cancer, are often associated with a gloomy prognosis.

Hematopoietic stem cells, that form mature blood cells, require a very precise amount of protein to function — and defective regulation of protein production is common in certain types of aggressive human blood cancers.

«Our discovery of these mutations is a first step in developing a genetics - based system for classifying endometriosis so that clinicians can sort out which forms of the disorder may need more aggressive treatment and which may not,» says Ie - Ming Shih, M.D., Ph.D., the Richard W. TeLinde Distinguished Professor in the Department of Gynecology & Obstetrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and co-director of the Breast and Ovarian Cancer Program at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center.

Dr Harry Bulstrode at the University of Cambridge has received a Cancer Research UK Pioneer Award * to test the effect of the Zika virus on glioblastoma, the most common and aggressive form of brain tumour.

Current treatments for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), an aggressive form of blood cancer, include conventional chemotherapy drugs that inhibit DNA synthesis.

Conventional, high - dose chemotherapy treatments can cause the fibroblast cells surrounding tumors to secrete proteins that promote the tumors» recurrence in more aggressive forms, researchers at Taipei Medical University and the National Institute of Cancer Research in Taiwan and University of California, San Francisco, have discovered.

A «Trojan horse» treatment for an aggressive form of brain cancer, which involves using tiny nanoparticles of gold to kill tumour cells, has been successfully tested by scientists.

Glioblastoma multiforme is the most common and aggressive form of brain cancer, with a median survival of about 15 months.

«This study forms the basis for future research in patients with breast cancer and offers hope for targeted therapy for patients with aggressive triple - negative inflammatory breast cancer,» said lead researcher Mateusz Opyrchal, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Oncology at RPCI.

A paper he published early this year in the Journal of Clinical Oncology describes a dendritic cell vaccine in advanced glioma, an aggressive form of brain cancer.

If detected at early stages the prognosis is quite favorable; however, aggressive forms of metastatic prostate cancer spread primarily to the skeleton.

Cardiff University scientists have developed a novel anti-cancer stem cell agent capable of targeting aggressive tumour forming cells common to breast, pancreas, colon and prostate cancers.

An international study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute has identified a genetic connection to the aggressive form of prostate cCancer Institute has identified a genetic connection to the aggressive form of prostate cancercancer.

Though not the most common form of skin cancer, melanoma is the most aggressive.

Women with the variant were at much higher risk for cancer, had more recurrences, were often hit with multiple cancers and were more likely to die from aggressive forms of these diseases.

Green and his colleagues focused on glioblastomas, the most lethal and aggressive form of brain cancer.

This new generation of viruses has been genetically «targeted and armed,» says Winald Gerritsen of the VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam, who is involved in an early human trial of an engineered adeno - associated virus that attacks glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer.

With our colleagues from National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan, we found that an increased level of this protein is associated with aggressive forms of ovarian cancer that are more likely to be resistant to chemotherapy and lead to death.»

The study evaluated 56 patients with ovarian clear cell adenocarcinoma (CCA), an aggressive form of ovarian cancer that is more likely to be resistant to chemotherapy and to have a poorer prognosis than other forms of this disease.

By age 80, more than 50 percent of men will develop prostate cancer but not all will have the aggressive, deadly form of the disease.

Osteosarcoma, a type of bone cancer, is a rare but very aggressive form of cancer that primarily affects teenagers.

As the largest ever genetic study on pigmentation, it will improve our understanding of diseases like melanoma, an aggressive form of skin cancer.

Immunotherapy is a promising approach in the treatment of metastatic melanoma, an aggressive and deadly form of skin cancer; but for most patients, immunotherapy drugs so far have failed to live up to their promise and provide little or no benefit.

New research suggests these patients may be at increased risk of an unusual and aggressive form of skin cancer.

What's more, protracted weight loss can be a harbinger of more aggressive forms of cancer.

Scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) today report a discovery that they hope will lead to the development of a powerful new way of treating an aggressive form of breast cancer.

Recently, teaming up with co-investigator Associate Professor Dr. Rolf A. Brekken, they looked into its possible involvement in Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (PDA), the most common form of pancreatic cancer, in a mouse model with an early onset aggressive form of tumor development.

Two immunotherapy drugs currently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of melanoma also show promise for treating a rare but aggressive form of papillary thyroid cancer.

Some forms of EB can be lethal in infancy, and some predispose patients to an aggressive and deadly skin cancer.

«The research showed that the aggressive form of basal breast cancer cells may be dependent on PLK4 for survival and that depleting it induced cell death,» says Dr. Mak.

Melanoma is the deadliest, most aggressive form of skin cancer.