Sentences with phrase «large number of cancers»

According to one theory, the increased radiation received by hundreds of thousands of citizens will cause an increase in their cancer rate — but an increase too tiny to detect amid the large number of cancers that will occur anyway.

They are prone to a large number of cancers that can be of the skin, lymph nodes, reproductive organs or internal organs.

Because of the urgent needs of a large number of cancer patients, most of these gene therapy trials are directed against cancer.

While circulating tumor DNA tests targeting a smaller set of cancer genes are already available for use in routine practice to guide care, by covering a much larger number of cancer genes, this high - intensity sequencing approach may enable development of future tests for early detection of cancer.

Although great strides have been made against smoking, «there are still 40 million smokers in the U.S., so we can continue to expect large numbers of cancer deaths and heart disease as a result,» he pointed out.

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As I've said, there have been a number of research papers of late, led in large part by the work of French scientist Laurence Zitvogel, that are building a strong case for a central role for the microbiome in cancer treatment response.

A number of outfits who say it will expedite the availability of treatments for unmet medical needs, including the largest cancer physician group in the U.S., hailed its passage on Wednesday.

We have the highest percentage of «Christians» in this nation with the largest prison population, the larger number of drug users and that is a nation divided over religion because of god fearing Christians who believe in this wondrous loving god that gives little girls cancer to test the faith of her parents as they watch her dying.

Eating processed meats increases the risk of colorectal cancer, according to a large number of studies, including the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) cancer, according to a large number of studies, including the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) study.

Within recent years, a large number of naturally occurring health - enhancing substances of plant origin have been recognized» to have beneficial effects on cancers, known as phytochemicals.

The Lund researchers have already started new studies in which a larger number of women will be monitored from breast cancer diagnosis and onwards, as well as testing ctDNA methods in other cancer types.

«Indeed, in a second tumor model of metastatic breast cancer, we demonstrated that mice treated with the EphA2 - targeting paclitaxel conjugate presented nearly no lung metastases, while a large numbers of lesions were observed in both untreated mice and in mice treated with just paclitaxel.»

«It increases the number of HPV16 genomes studied by an order of magnitude and is the first large study to evaluate variation occurring throughout the HPV16 genome at the isolate level linked to cancer development.»

For instance, among the six largest countries, although the actual numbers of female deaths from lung cancer will still be the highest in the UK in 2016 than in the other large countries (at 16,400), the rate per 100,000 women has started to fall (from 20.15 per 100,000 in 2013 to 19.37 predicted in 2016), while death rates are still rising in the other countries.

«In view of the large number of people who consume processed meat, the global impact on cancer incidence is of public health importance.»

«This study demonstrates the value of using the SEER database to analyze factors associated with surgery as a treatment for localized pancreatic cancer in a large number of patients over a prolonged period of time,» says Dr. Kim, who is also Chief Medical Officer of UH Seidman Cancer Center and the Charles Hubay Professor at Case Western Reserve School of Medcancer in a large number of patients over a prolonged period of time,» says Dr. Kim, who is also Chief Medical Officer of UH Seidman Cancer Center and the Charles Hubay Professor at Case Western Reserve School of MedCancer Center and the Charles Hubay Professor at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine.

Co-Senior author, Dr Florence Raynaud, a group leader at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, said: «The study made accurate measurements of a large number of metabolites as they varied by time of day and under different sleep patterns.

«In order to detect an elevation in risk, one needs to study much larger numbers of people,» Shore says, especially given that 40 % of all Japanese develop cancer.

Fat cells cultured from the body mass index of a morbidly obese patient cause multiple myeloma cells to anchor to a much greater extent than normal cells and produce a significantly larger number of blood vessels to sustain the cancer cells.

I think there may be some that don't respond to [immunotherapy] but I'm pretty optimistic that we will be able to deal with a very large number of types of cancer.

«It is particularly good news for the large number of affected patients that if they are in good medical care and have survived breast cancer, they do not need to be more worried about deadly heart diseases than women at the same age without breast cancer.»

Numbers vary, but Dellavalle and colleagues point to analyses of large populations of people showing that skin cancer risk is about 16 percent more likely in people who report ever having used a tanning bed.

The researchers found that these immune system pathways were suppressed in a large number of primary tumors — roughly 50 percent of ovarian cancers studied, 40 percent of colorectal cancers and 30 percent of breast cancers.

If animal tests go well, the next trials will be with humans, a process that involves three stages — one for safety, the next to see if the protein kills cancer in a limited number of people, and the last to turn it loose in a large group.

«In a large number of diseases, ranging from cancer to ALS, major stress occurs in the affected cells, leading the UPR pathway to be triggered,» he said.

The absolute risk this poses may be low — a chest X-ray only increases the risk of a fatal cancer by 1 in 200,000 — but it must be balanced against the large number of flights, and whether the risk is avoidable.

Obesity puts a large burden on the health care system and increases an individual's risk for a number of diseases including diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer.

Breast cancer is caused by complex interactions between a large number of genetic variants and our environment.

We identified a large number of such events in critical cancer genes.

Gadolinium - based contrast agents have a proven track record for accurate diagnosis and treatment monitoring of a large number of diseases including cancer, neurological pathology, heart disease, liver disease, and many other important conditions afflicting adults and children.

Cancer clusters are defined as an unusually large number of similar cancers occurring within a specific group of people, geographic area or period of time.

Although the cure rate for breast cancer is high — it has an 89 percent 5 - year survival rate — a large number of patients have a recurrence of their cancer.

A comprehensive genomic analysis of Wilms tumor — the most common kidney cancer in children — found genetic mutations involving a large number of genes that fall into two major categories.

- Myosin - 10 expressing cancers have a large number of structures called filopodia.

Many of the variants involved in numerous types of cancer have been identified with genetic sequencing studies of large numbers of patients.

If a woman has an abortion, she's left with a large number of these immature cells lining her breast ducts, and she is therefore more vulnerable to cancer down the road — 30 percent more vulnerable, Brind says, than a woman who has never had an abortion.

Researchers from the University of Leicester's Department of Cancer Studies and Molecular Medicine, in collaboration with Cleaver Scientific Ltd., have developed a novel, high throughput method of performing the assay which is set to overcome this problem and to push down the costs of processing large numbers of samples.

«One of the least understood aspects of this process is how the excess milk and large numbers of dead cells are removed from the mammary gland without substantial activation of the immune system,» says Matthew Naylor, a cancer biologist at the University of Sydney in Australia.

To address these limitations, Zimmer and senior study author Lorenz Studer of the Sloan Kettering Institute for Cancer Research developed a simple, efficient, and robust stem cell - based strategy for reliably producing a large number of diverse, functional pituitary cell types suitable for therapeutic use.

In cases where there are lots of T cells in the vicinity of a tumor, or where tumor cells have undergone large numbers of mutations, which creates additional targets for immune sentries, T cells will signal a full - fledged immune response to the cancer.

Dr Jeremy Thomas, a consultant pathologist at the Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK, told the European Breast Cancer Conference that although the majority of women with DCIS received the correct surgery for their disease, large numbers of women were undergoing mastectomy for DCIS either as a result of failed breast conservation surgery or for tumors that turned out to be smaller than 20 mm in diameter and therefore should normally have had a lumpectomy rather than a mastectomy.

We look forward to learning the results of the follow - up clinical studies that are underway to see how this breakthrough benefits a larger number of patients,» said Stand Up To Cancer President and CEO Sung Poblete, Ph.D., RN.

«Because skin cancers are so common in the population, it makes sense that individuals would carry a large number of mutations.

«We wanted to see whether very - large - scale screening across a diverse collection of cancer cell lines and a large number of drugs could yield new combinations for patients with cancer,» says Adam Friedman, MD, PhD, of the CBRC and the MGH Cancer Center, who led the cancer cell lines and a large number of drugs could yield new combinations for patients with cancer,» says Adam Friedman, MD, PhD, of the CBRC and the MGH Cancer Center, who led the cancer,» says Adam Friedman, MD, PhD, of the CBRC and the MGH Cancer Center, who led the Cancer Center, who led the study.

Cancer cells that have a relatively large number of mutations in their DNA express aberrant proteins — or neoantigens — that reveal the cancer to the immune sCancer cells that have a relatively large number of mutations in their DNA express aberrant proteins — or neoantigens — that reveal the cancer to the immune scancer to the immune system.

In a presentation of early clinical trial data to the 20th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society for Neuro - Oncology, physician scientists from the University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center reported that a large number of study participants responded well to the drug combination.

Even though cancers account for a relatively small share of all disease in developing countries, the actual number of cases is greater than in the industrialised world because of the larger populations, says Indraneel Mittra, an oncologist at the Tata Memorial Centre (TMC) in Bombay.

Older adults who died from cancer had the largest increase in the number of drugs.

Using a new TaqMan PCR - based technique, the researchers screened a number of cancer cell lines from various tissues, and discovered that tRNA halves were specifically expressed in large quantities in sex hormone - dependent cancers, i.e., estrogen receptor (ER)- positive breast cancer and androgen receptor (AR)- positive prostate cancer that are driven by the hormones estrogen and testosterone.

As genomic sequencing methods continue to identify large numbers of novel cancer mutations, how can we identify the mutations in a given tumor that are most critical to the maintenance of its oncogenic phenotype?