Sentences with phrase «into earlier stages of the disease»

Darzalex, however, has not yet reached its peak potential as the drug moves into earlier stages of the disease and is being tested on solid tumours like lung cancer.

Not exact matches

So now, with late - stage clinical failures piling up, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has set off down a path to adapt those standards as researchers are pushed inexorably into earlier and earlier forms of the disease, ahead of the brain damage inflicted by Alzheimer's.

«If you look at the «normal» brains that come into the bank, about 15 per cent actually aren't normal — they've got early stages of a neurodegenerative disease.»

In this regard, intense research efforts are being channelled into finding new biological markers that can provide information about the different stages of the disease and allow its early detection, and thus facilitate its management.

The same relationship did not apply to ß - amyloid, suggesting that — although ß - amyloid PET scans can detect early stages of AD — tau is a better predictor of when people transition from the early, nonsymptomatic stages of the disease into mild Alzheimer's disease, Ances says.

Because of the success of early treatment, some research suggests that people with liver diseases should routinely be screened for HE through cognitive tests so that HE can be caught and treated before it progresses into the more advanced stages.

EVI's main focus remains on the discovery of antigens for diseases of poverty and their introduction into early stages of clinical development.

In the study, which was conducted in collaboration with researchers at UC San Francisco and published today in the Journal of Neuroscience, scientists transplanted inhibitory neuron progenitors — early - stage brain cells that have the capacity to develop into mature inhibitory neurons — into two mouse models of Alzheimer's disease, apoE4 or apoE4 with accumulation of amyloid beta, another major contributor to Alzheimer's.

Dr. Lee: Most people with bladder cancer (around 70 %) are initially diagnosed with early stage disease, meaning that their tumor is not growing deeply into the wall of the bladder.

Weintraub, who lost her sister to gastric cancer, also writes about the emerging science behind the remarkable ability of dogs to sniff out early stage cancer and the efforts underway to translate that talent into diagnostic devices for early detection of the disease.