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.
Not exact matches
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.
HUNDREDS
of infants who die each year
from an
aggressive form of leukaemia could one day be saved, thanks to the discovery
of the
disease's weak spot.
For years, scientists have observed that tumor cells
from certain breast cancer patients with
aggressive forms of the
disease contained low levels
of mitochondrial DNA.