Sentences with phrase «from brain metastases»

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It offers cardio protection, it helps lower bad cholesterol, it may help prevent the progression of multiple sclerosis, it has the ability to regenerate brain cells after a stroke, it has the ability to cross the blood - brain barrier to potentially ward off Alzheimer's disease, apparently it's good at wiping amyloid plaque from the brain (which studies haves linked to Alzheimer's), it may help to prevent certain types of cancer, and studies have shown that it inhibits cancer cell growth and metastases (meaning it keeps cancer from spreading).

Before this study was carried out, the extent to which the genetic profiles of brain metastases differ from that of the primary was unknown.

Research from McMaster University has identified new regulators of brain metastases in patients with lung cancer.

«Brain metastases are a secondary brain tumour, which means they are caused by cancer cells that escape from primary tumours like lung, breast or melanoma, and travel to the brain,» said Mohini Singh, the study's primary author and a PhD candidate in biochemistry at the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaBrain metastases are a secondary brain tumour, which means they are caused by cancer cells that escape from primary tumours like lung, breast or melanoma, and travel to the brain,» said Mohini Singh, the study's primary author and a PhD candidate in biochemistry at the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMabrain tumour, which means they are caused by cancer cells that escape from primary tumours like lung, breast or melanoma, and travel to the brain,» said Mohini Singh, the study's primary author and a PhD candidate in biochemistry at the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMabrain,» said Mohini Singh, the study's primary author and a PhD candidate in biochemistry at the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine at McMaster.

The study used samples from lung cancer patients with brain metastases.

Since whole - brain radiation is associated with significant cognitive effects and the use of additional radiation therapy for progression is common in this population, the Yale researchers suspect that patients with the ALK mutation would benefit from radiation focused on individual metastases.

Thus, based on the robust findings from the current study and until proven otherwise, WBRT may still have an important role for treatment of patients who are not in this specific disease category (i.e., 1 - 3 brain metastases).

The Nakano lab is also working on brain metastases, tumors that spread into the brain from other parts of the body.

«In cancer, it's usually the metastases to the lung, liver or brain that kill the patient, but it's hard to get tissue safely from these areas,» said Rick Lanman, MD, Guardant Health's chief medical officer.

After confirming in mouse models that cells from HER2 - positive breast cancers became resistant to anti-HER2 treatment when implanted into the brain but not into other tissues, the investigators found that HER3 is overexpressed in brain metastases of HER2 - positive breast cancers from both mice and human patients.

«Metastatic brain tumors — often from lung, breast or skin cancers — are the most commonly observed tumors within the brain and account for about 40 percent of advanced melanoma metastases.

«Metastatic brain tumors — often from lung, breast or skin cancers — are the most commonly observed tumors within the brain and account for about 30 percent of advanced breast cancer metastases,» says Khalid Shah, MS, PhD, director of the Molecular Neurotherapy and Imaging Laboratory in the MGH Departments of Radiology and Neurology, who led the study.

Current treatments for both primary brain tumors and brain metastases (cancer that has spread to the brain from another place in the body) are low in number and short on effectiveness.

Safety and clinical activity of ipilimumab in melanoma patients with brain metastases: retrospective analysis of data from a phase 2 trial.

The study conducted at SciLifeLab shows that temozolomide itself not only is cytotoxically active against glioblastoma tumors but also against other types of brain tumors, such as medulloblastoma and metastases from other primary tumors.

Early results from an ongoing trial suggest that pembrolizumab has promising activity in untreated melanoma patients with brain metastases.

A phase III study of TTFields following Stereotactic Radiosurgery for 1 - 10 Brain Metastases from Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer more...

Central nervous system (CNS) tumors pose a particular challenge for antibody therapeutics, because the blood - brain barrier (BBB) prevents intravenously - injected antibodies from reaching CNS metastases.