Sentences with phrase «human cancer types»

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There are currently two types of cancer vaccines available: preventive, for human papillomavirus and hepatitis B; and treatment, for metastatic prostate cancer.

... The list of diseases found with extraordinary frequency among male homosexual practitioners as a result of anal intercourse is alarming: anal cancer, chlamydia trachomatis, cryptosporidium, giardia lamblia, herpes simplex virus, human immunodeficiency virus, human papilloma virus, isospora belli, microsporidia, gonorrhea, viral hepatitis type B & C, syphilis.

Breast milk has been discovered to have cancer - killing properties against many different types of cancer, in a petri dish and in the human body.

Additionally, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services finds that women who breastfeed their babies probably lower their risk for developing breast cancer, type 2 diabetes, ovarian cancer, postpartum depression, and rheumatoid arthritis.

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.

Sinclair thinks that these mouse models indicate that resveratrol may be effective in preventing age - related diseases in humans, like cancer, heart disease and type 2 diabetes.

The vaccination protects against infection from the two types of Human Papilloma Virus that cause seven in 10 cases of cervical cancer, as well as two other types of the virus linked with genital warts.

In addition to protecting against 80 percent of cervical cancers, the new 9 - Valent human papillomavirus vaccine, which includes seven cancer causing HPV - types, has the potential to protect against nearly 19,000 other cancers diagnosed in the United States, including anal, oropharyngeal and penile cancers.

Although mutations can occur anywhere in the human intestine, certain types of colorectal cancer tend to develop in particular locations, suggesting that additional, nongenetic factors contribute to tumor growth and dictate where polyps appear.

In their latest study, they tested compounds against cells from nine different types of human cancer, including common types affecting blood, colon, breast, prostate, ovaries, kidneys, and lungs.

«Ninety to 95 percent of cervical cancer cases are HPV - related, and there are very few studies of this type of cancer in mice because HPV is a human virus,» Schwarz said.

The researchers have shown that it is possible to produce chromosome modifications in human cells that are genetically identical to those observed in leukemia and other types of human cancer.

The only VLP - based vaccine to hit the U.S. market is Merck & Co.'s Gardasil, which won FDA approval in June as preventative against certain types of human papillomavirus (HPV), which could lead to cervical cancer.

Beyond lung cancer, TiY is able to target TICs in 28 types of human cell lines derived from the central nervous system, melanoma, breast, renal, ovarian, colon, and prostate cancer.

The study has produced more than 20 publications examining a range of complex human conditions, including cardiovascular disease, breast and lung cancer, and type I and II diabetes.

Finally, a Calgary, Alberta — based company, Oncolytics Biotech, is testing a reovirus (an RNA virus often found in human lungs but thought to be nonpathogenic) against several types of cancer, including that of the lung and skin as well as head and neck malignancies.

Human chondrosarcoma HCS - 2 / 8 cells, which are a type of benign bone cancer cells, can be used to investigate how optimization of culture conditions could improve the synthesis of cartilage - specific molecules.»

In earlier studies involving animal models and human cancer cell lines, researchers found that breast cancer spreads when three specific cells are in direct contact: an endothelial cell (a type of cell that lines the blood vessels), a perivascular macrophage (a type of immune cell found near blood vessels), and a tumor cell that produces high levels of Mena, a protein that enhances a cancer cell's ability to spread.

Tamayo and team tested REVEALER using The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), the National Institutes of Health's database of genomic information from more than 500 human tumors representing many cancer Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), the National Institutes of Health's database of genomic information from more than 500 human tumors representing many cancer cancer types.

Someday, targeted inhibition of Hh signaling may be effective in the treatment and prevention of many types of human cancers.

The next steps will be to test these combinations in more human cancer cell types and eventually in mouse models.

When scientists reported 2 years ago that mice with certain gut bacteria responded best to a powerful new type of cancer drug, other researchers were intrigued but cautious — mice, after all, aren't humans.

The team began by identifying hundreds of genes frequently mutated in human cancers: 200 implicated in breast cancer, 170 linked to ovarian cancer, and 134 involved in DNA repair, which is compromised in many types of cancer.

Understanding how monkey viruses work may help to find ways to prevent this type of cancer in humans.

The Harvard researchers have also implicated two cancer - causing viruses: human papilloma virus, which can cause cervical cancer, and Epstein - Barr virus, which infects about 95 per cent of people and has been linked to several types of tumour.

«We've seen this in six different types of human cancer cell lines in the lab,» Choudhury said.

Humans and their pet dogs are close, so close that they both develop a type of cancer called diffuse large B - cell lymphoma.

Linda Buck of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Richard Axel of Columbia University, both winners of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, have found that the human nose contains about 1,000 different types of olfactory neurons, each type able to detect a particular set of chemicals.

In previous studies, including recent genome sequencing of cancer patients, human SETD2 has been implicated in several cancer types, especially in renal cell carcinoma — the most common kind of kidney cancer.

The researchers published their views of nine cell types, including cancer cells in both humans and mice, in the December 18, 2014, issue of Cell.

Using all the existing data that was available, Andrechek, along with MSU doctoral student Daniel Hollern, analyzed 1,172 mouse mammary tumor samples from 26 different preclinical models and was able to compile one of the largest databases to show which strains of mice were best suited to study a particular type of human breast cancer.

They have become a valuable resource for biologists, enabling momentous scientific breakthroughs including the development of the polio vaccine the Nobel Prize winning studies defining the role of telomerase in aging, and research on the causative role of human papillomavirus (HPV) in some types of cervical cancer.

DFMO is being investigated in human clinical trials to treat some types of cancer, but it hasn't been tested as a potential therapy for Alzheimer's.

Researchers from Uppsala University, Sweden, and the Broad Institute, USA, have identified both similarities and differences between a single tumor type in multiple dogs breeds; a finding they believe parallels the situation in the cancer of human patients.

And with non-melanoma skin cancers being the most frequent human tumors, there is clearly a tremendous need to understand the underlying molecular mechanisms, to allow the development of drugs to treat these types of cancer.

Although most of the work has been carried out using in vivo studies, Asst Prof Gasser has been collaborating with Dr Joanne Ngeow at the National Cancer Centre Singapore to characterise the process in different types of human tumours.

Already researchers at the Cancer Genome Atlas project (a collaboration of the National Cancer Institute and the National Human Genome Research Institute) are sequencing mutations involved in more than 20 types of cCancer Genome Atlas project (a collaboration of the National Cancer Institute and the National Human Genome Research Institute) are sequencing mutations involved in more than 20 types of cCancer Institute and the National Human Genome Research Institute) are sequencing mutations involved in more than 20 types of cancercancer.

«Our work outlines the genetic similarities of the tissue and cells in different types of tumors and shows the strong relationships mice can have to other human cancers too.»

According to its developers, the technique can be applied to assess mutation dynamics in other types of cells, even human cancer cells.

If borne out in humans, the findings caution against giving this type of antioxidant - containing medication to diabetic cancer patients.

Disruption of the circadian rhythm carries human health impacts, including an increased risk of breast cancer, metabolic diseases such as type - 2 diabetes and mood disorders, he said.

If it works in humans, the technique could prolong the lives of some brain cancer patients, and it might be applicable to other types of cancer as well.

While it is difficult to say at this point what types of cancer might be amenable to such an approach, this new concept could lead to an improvement in human cancer treatment in the long term, the researchers say.

The research highlights the importance of investigating different cell types in normal human tissues to understand the cellular origin of cancer and the factors that may contribute to its development.

Sergey Nikolaev from the UNIGE Faculty of Medicine focused on Basal Cell Carcinoma (BCC), a type of cancer that is very common in humans.

The DNA of BKV has been discovered in several types of human cancers including prostate tumours, and mouse studies suggest the virus can trigger cancer.

The study analyzed data from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), a research program supported by the National Cancer Institute and National Human Genome Research Institute within the National Institutes of Health that is looking at genomic changes in more than 20 different types of cCancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), a research program supported by the National Cancer Institute and National Human Genome Research Institute within the National Institutes of Health that is looking at genomic changes in more than 20 different types of cCancer Institute and National Human Genome Research Institute within the National Institutes of Health that is looking at genomic changes in more than 20 different types of cancercancer.

For the time course study, cells were treated with 20 μM of EGCG for 12, 24, 48, 72, or 144 h. Human colon cancer cell line HT - 29 and prostate cancer cell line PC3 were obtained from American Type Culture Collection (Manassas, VA), and were grown in McCoy's 5A and RPMI 1640 containing 10 % fetal bovine serum, respectively.

Researchers from Uppsala University, Sweden, and the Broad Institute, USA, have identified both similarities and differences between a single tumour type in multiple dogs breeds; a finding they believe parallels the situation in the cancer of human patients.