Sentences with phrase «kind of cancer study»

The federal government is launching a very different kind of cancer study that will assign patients drugs based on what genes drive their tumors rather than the type.

Not exact matches

It studies DNA in the blood, detecting biological signs of cancer and then making predictions about where the cancer is and what kind of treatments would work best.

«This is the first comprehensive study of its kind and shows the potential to not only reduce the global cancer burden, but also guide clinical decision - making with regard to childhood vaccinations,» said Marc T. Goodman, PhD, MPH, senior author of the study and director of Cancer Prevention and Genetics at the Cedars - Sinai Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Instcancer burden, but also guide clinical decision - making with regard to childhood vaccinations,» said Marc T. Goodman, PhD, MPH, senior author of the study and director of Cancer Prevention and Genetics at the Cedars - Sinai Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer InstCancer Prevention and Genetics at the Cedars - Sinai Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer InstCancer Institute.

Pre-clinical studies have shown it to be effective in eliminating a number of different kinds of cancers cells, including cancer stem cells from human breast cancer patient biopsies.

In May 2015, the Moffitt Cancer Center launched a pilot study to test whether this kind of adaptive - therapy approach might help people with prostate cCancer Center launched a pilot study to test whether this kind of adaptive - therapy approach might help people with prostate cancercancer.

However, in the largest study of its kind so far, scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg have now shown that the risk of death from heart disease in breast cancer patients following radiotherapy or chemotherapy is no higher than it is among the average populCancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg have now shown that the risk of death from heart disease in breast cancer patients following radiotherapy or chemotherapy is no higher than it is among the average populcancer patients following radiotherapy or chemotherapy is no higher than it is among the average population.

In the largest study of its kind, people who ate a daily handful of nuts were 20 percent less likely to die from any cause over a 30 - year period than were those who didn't consume nuts, say scientists from Dana - Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and the Harvard School of Public Health.

Next on 23andMe's agenda: applying the same approach to rare cancers, such as sarcoma and a group of blood cancers called myeloproliferative neoplasms, that are difficult to study but that might be ideally suited to this kind of analysis.

That trend is problematic considering that African - Americans — the most at - risk population for multiple myeloma — have different genetics that can affect how this type of cancer progresses and what kind of targeted therapies are most effective, said Zarko Manojlovic, lead author of the study.

Exploiting the same pre-clinical model used for their studies, the researchers are testing the efficacy of this kind of drug candidates against cancer stem cells, and the possibility of identifying combination regimens with standard chemotherapies with minimized toxic effects, with the perspective of their possible application for the treatment of human breast cancer.

This is the largest study of its kind to use new technology to comprehensively investigate the inherited basis of ovarian cancer.

Edward Giovannucci, an associate professor of nutrition and epidemiology at Harvard and a coauthor of both studies, believes that calcium itself, at high levels of consumption, promotes this kind of cancer by depleting protective levels of Vitamin D.

The team has studied the most common kind of breast tumour — estrogen - positive (ER +) and accounting for 80 % of breast cancer tumour cases — that is characterised by a long period of latency with no symptoms.

A higher body mass index (BMI) increases the risk of developing 10 of the most common cancers, the largest study of its kind on BMI and cancer shows.

«Of course, if we develop inhibitors starting with these kinds of studies that would help treat cancer, that would be wonderful.&raquOf course, if we develop inhibitors starting with these kinds of studies that would help treat cancer, that would be wonderful.&raquof studies that would help treat cancer, that would be wonderful.»

LncRNAs are intriguing therapeutic targets — recent studies by Khalil and others have implicated lncRNAs defects in all kinds of diseases, including infertility and cancer.

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 research, from the Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour Research Centre at UCL (University College London), is the largest study of its kind.

«The results position TRPV4 as a new target for preventing and treating sunburn, and probably chronic sun damage including skin cancer or skin photo - aging, though more work must be done before TRPV4 inhibitors can become part of the sun defense arsenal, perhaps in new kinds of skin cream, or to treat chronic sun damage,» said Steinhoff, co-senior author of the study.

The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) has uncovered possible genetic origins of breast cancer that spreads to the brain, according to a first - of - its - kind study published in the scientific journal PLOS ONE.

The study, Integrated Genomic and Epigenomic Analysis of Breast Cancer Brain Metastasis, published Jan. 29, is the first of its kind to incorporate all of those avenues of inquiry in the study of this disease.

With these switches, researchers might be able to program probiotic bacteria — the kind found in yogurt — to detect signs of colon cancer and then spit out warning signals, says study coauthor Jerome Bonnet of Stanford University.

In one of the largest, longest, and most controlled studies of its kind, researchers investigated whether the emotional state of cancer patients has any relationship to their survival.

«This is the first study to test the promise of a new kind of drug, olaparib, for life - threatening prostate cancer no longer responding to best available treatment.

Researchers leading the largest genomic tumor profiling effort of its kind say such studies are technically feasible in a broad population of adult and pediatric patients with many different types of cancer, and that some patients can benefit by receiving precision drugs targeted to their tumors» mutations or being enrolled in clinical trials.

In their 2015 study, Tomasetti and Vogelstein compared cancer incidence in the United States to the total number of cell divisions to different kinds of tissues in the body.

Fortunately, experiments done by Dr. Jan Vijg at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and others on mutations (changes in base sequence in DNA) and additional studies commissioned by SENS Research Foundation on epimutations (changes in the arrangement of methyl groups) suggest that these latter kinds of alterations - the kind that accumulate in cells without triggering apoptosis or senescence or contributing to cancer - accumulate too slowly to make a difference with the current lifespan.

First Study of Its Kind Depicts Benefits of Brachytherapy for Patients with recurrent Prostate Cancer after EBRT Read more

The 2011 paper «Tracheobronchial transplantation with a stem - cell - seeded bioartificial nanocomposite: a proof - of - concept study» described a first - of - its - kind procedure: A 36 - year - old man with recurrent tracheal cancer received an artificial airway seeded with his own stem cells.

In the Lancet study, the largest analysis of its kind to date, researchers analyzed the role of CRP in heart attack, stroke, and numerous other conditions (such as cancer) in more than 160,000 people.

Studies have found both positive and negative correlations between smoking pot and increased lung cancer risk, but inhaling smoke of any kind harms the lungs.

A study carried out in Hartford Connecticut, the first of it's kind in North America, found that, «women with breast cancer have 50 % to 60 % higher levels of organochlorines (chlorination byproducts) in their breast tissue than women without breast cancer.»

In the study, rats with a particular kind of breast cancer were exposed to apigenin, a compound commonly found in parsley as well as other plants.

Studies suggest that vitamin D is also beneficial in preventing depression, cardiac disease and some kinds of cancers.

If you read some of the published studies from Dr. Seyfried and Dr. D'Agostino, you'll see that they are working on the idea of combining this kind of therapeutic ketosis with other supplements that challenge cancer cell metabolism.

A Nutrition Journal review of studies comparing grass - fed beef to the conventional kind that spanned more than 30 years found that grass - based diets raise cancer - fighting antioxidant activity (glutathione and superoxide dismutase) higher.

So far all we have are just blanket statements and dire warnings about some kind of «generalized» study that shows that laetrile has no benefits in preventing or in even partially alleviating cancer.

Cancer studies show that gamma linolenic acid (GLA) can kill 40 different kinds of cancer cells in the laboratory tissue tests without harming healthy tCancer studies show that gamma linolenic acid (GLA) can kill 40 different kinds of cancer cells in the laboratory tissue tests without harming healthy tcancer cells in the laboratory tissue tests without harming healthy tissue.

In fact, in a 2004 study published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, it was concluded that chlorogenic acid antioxidants may prevent the proliferation of four kinds of cancer cells, suggesting green coffee bean extract may even help to prevent cancer.

The study became the first of its kind to develop a prostate cancer «dietary index» of specific nutrients - such as selenium and calcium - that have been linked in some way to prostate cancer.

Additionally, according to a 2011 study published in the journal Prostate, men who take statin drugs of any kind are significantly more prone to developing prostate cancer compared to other men.

Studies show that consuming wheat can reduce the risk of breast cancer 41 % more than other kinds of fiber in pre-menopausal woman!

Another study by YS Kim from Washington State University showed an identification of molecular targets regarding specific amino acid dependency and how it modulates specific kinds of prostate cancer cells.

In 2002, the Women's Health Initiative, the first study of its kind to test the safety and efficacy of HRT, released results on the increased risk of breast cancer and stroke among menopausal women taking combined hormone replacement therapy.

The new research, lead by scientists from the Dana - Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and the Harvard School of Public Health, was the largest and longest study of it's kind.

One other thing is why are only certain cancers mentioned of studies... are we expected to eat some new kind of weird stuff to reduce the chances of getting every different kind of cancer is there an «anti-Cancer diet» that will help with all cancers?

According to studies, diets rich in ascorbic acid such as the kind found in lemon juice, help protect the stomach against peptic ulcers and certain types of cancer.

Led by Cheryl Thompson, PhD, the study is the first - of - its - kind to show an association between insufficient sleep and biologically more aggressive tumors as well as likelihood of cancer recurrence.

Concurrently, Bernstien tracks the medical team led by Dr Mary - Claire King (Helen Hunt), who is determined to find a link of any kind that will shed light on the moribund, bureaucratic state of cancer study.

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