Sentences with phrase «late effects of cancer»

«While there is extensive scientific literature on the late effects of cancer therapy, including the risk that survivors will develop subsequent malignancies, until now little was known about the contribution of genetic factors,» said Jinghui Zhang, PhD, Computational Biology chair.

The analysis showed that the 15 - year death rate has decreased steadily since 1970 due in part to a reduction in deaths from the late effects of cancer treatment.

Evidence from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study suggests that changes in childhood cancer treatment have reduced deaths from the late effects of cancer treatment and extended the lives of childhood cancer survivors.

«For survivors at risk of breast cancer due to chest radiation or heart problems because of anthracyclines, screening tests like mammograms and echocardiograms that result in early detection of late effects of cancer therapy may make a lifesaving difference,» he said.

Intensive, adaptive computer - based cognitive training presented as a video game helped improve working memory and other cognitive skills of childhood cancer survivors and holds hope for revolutionizing management of the late effects of cancer treatment.

The research, which appears in the journal The Lancet Oncology, should aid efforts to reduce and better manage the late effects of cancer treatment.

Not exact matches

VICTORIA — New Democrat spokesperson for health, Judy Darcy, is congratulating advocates who have won improved treatment for the late effects of early childhood cancer.

This was before Mackey had won a single Iditarod, let alone four straight; before he used what he calls his marathon style — catnapping as his sled moves and covering 100 - mile chunks at a moderate pace without prolonged rest, instead of sprinting from rest stop to rest stop like most other racers — to win an unprecedented double (the Yukon Quest, the world's other 1,000 - mile dogsled race, and just weeks later the Iditarod) not once but twice; before he became so dominant that slower competitors complained they had no chance to finish within five days of him (the requirement for an official place and a commemorative belt buckle); and before a rival pushed for drug testing at the 2010 Iditarod, suspecting that Mackey's secret was his prescription for medical marijuana to alleviate the side effects of cancer treatment.

With statistics showing that one in five children will grow up to develop skin cancer and that protecting skin from the sun during childhood and adolescence is important to reducing the risk of cancer later in life, it's vital that parents become educated about sun safety, take steps to protect their kids against the damaging effects of the sun and build safe sun habits into the family routine.

Editor's note: This story was updated June 21, 2017, to correct the list of side effects of the treatment and to note that it's not just late - stage cancer patients who might be eligible for immunotherapy.

Given the serious health consequences of childhood abuse later in life, such as heart disease, stroke and some cancers, Chiang and her co-authors wanted to examine whether there's anything that can be done to compensate or reverse these effects.

«These results suggest that computerized cognitive training may help fill a void in management of cognitive late effects that impact quality of life for childhood cancer survivors, such as the likelihood they will complete school and live independently,» said first and corresponding author Heather Conklin, Ph.D., an associate member of the St. Jude Department of Psychology.

One of his latest studies, published in 2015, found that exposure to bright blue - white light during the day has the opposite effect of light exposure at night: It greatly enhances the release of melatonin and inhibits the proliferation of prostate cancer cells in an animal model.

«Exposure to BPA in developing prostate increases risk of later cancer: Ubiquitous plasticizers may have long - term health effects.»

Although SCT cures cancer in 50 percent of the patients, 25 percent die from relapsed cancer and there remaining go into remission but later succumb to effects of GVHD.

«Our study adds strong support to the growing concern that stomach cancer is a rare but important adverse late effect of treatment for Hodgkin lymphoma,» said Morton.

They address health promotion, surveillance for recurrence and screening for second primary cancers, and the assessment and management of physical and psychosocial long - term and late effects resulting from prostate cancer and its treatment.

«Targeted chemotherapy shows early signs of slowing tumor growth with less toxicity: Mouse model research shows promising method of helping childhood cancer survivors avoid late effects of chemotherapy.»

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Research led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital found that deaths from late effects of childhood cancer treatment have declined in recent decades and survivors are living longer

examines long - term sequelae resulting from a diagnosis of childhood cancer and its treatment, and health care relating to these late effects.This multi-study initiative is funded by a Canadian Cancer Society program project grant, with additional funding from CCS BC and Yukon Division, and has examined long - term health effects and educational attainment, health care utilization, and quality of follow - up care among disease survcancer and its treatment, and health care relating to these late effects.This multi-study initiative is funded by a Canadian Cancer Society program project grant, with additional funding from CCS BC and Yukon Division, and has examined long - term health effects and educational attainment, health care utilization, and quality of follow - up care among disease survCancer Society program project grant, with additional funding from CCS BC and Yukon Division, and has examined long - term health effects and educational attainment, health care utilization, and quality of follow - up care among disease survivors.

At Penn Medicine's Abramson Cancer Center, the 2 - PREVENT (Secondary PREvention through SurVEillance and iNTervention) aims to address one of the greatest challenges in breast cancer treatment: The high rate of relapse and late treatment effects among breast cancer survCancer Center, the 2 - PREVENT (Secondary PREvention through SurVEillance and iNTervention) aims to address one of the greatest challenges in breast cancer treatment: The high rate of relapse and late treatment effects among breast cancer survcancer treatment: The high rate of relapse and late treatment effects among breast cancer survcancer survivors.

Despite 5 - year survival rates approaching 90 %, a substantial number of breast cancer patients relapse - and many more experience late treatment effects or are diagnosed with a second cancer.

Potential long - term or late side effects of cancer treatment, bone marrow / stem cell transplant, symptoms and treatments

Right now between 15 and 20 percent of breast cancer patients ultimately relapse, and many more experience late effects of treatment or are diagnosed with a second cancer.

Research by the late John F. Prudden MD, DSci, on the effect of bovine tracheal cartilage on arthritis, autoimmune disorders, wound healing and cancer has been particularly impressive.

But there are some cancer biologists out there that feel that while mutations are ubiquitous in cancer, they may not be the primary driving force of the disease and, as we'll discuss later, they may actually be secondary effects of a deeper underlying process.

With rudimentary laboratories, one could argue that more was accomplished with regards to the effect of diet on cancer in the former half of the century, as revolutionary researchers like Tannenbaum, Rous, and their colleagues provided us with dozens of animal studies linking diet and cancer by exposing mice to free radical - laden vegetable oils.32, 33 Several decades later, two other researchers, Dayton and Pearce, provided one of the few studies revealing what happens when we give humans vegetable oils and their accompanying free radicals when they randomized men to a corn oil solution and a similar rise in cancer followed.34 It is no surprise that corn oil is often used in animal studies to cause cancer, as the ingestion of damaging free radicals predictably hastens cancer development.35 Furthermore, these scientists were the first to show that fasting, restricting calories, and cutting carbohydrates could lower the chance of cancer in animals exposed to dangerous chemicals and carcinogens.

More clues for understanding the casein - cancer research come from another Indian study — this one published in the late 1980s, and examining the effects of protein in aflatoxin - exposed monkeys instead of rats.14 As with Campbell's experiments, the monkeys were fed diets containing either 5 percent or 20 percent casein, but with one important difference: instead of being slammed with an astronomically (and unrealistically) high dose of aflatoxin, the monkeys were exposed to lower, daily doses — mimicking a real - world situation where aflatoxin is consumed frequently in small amounts from contaminated foods.

Autophagy has gained the attention of researchers who recognize its benefits for managing inflammation, slowing the effects of aging, and treating various chronic diseases, such as autoimmune disease and cancer — more on this later!

Special health examinations will be given to workers with exposures above 100 mSv including annual monitoring of the thyroid, stomach, large intestine and lung for cancer as a means to monitor for potential late radiation - related health effects at the individual level.

BPA is an endocrine disruptor, meaning it mimics the effects of estrogen on the body and has been linked to the growth of tumors in the breast, uterus and prostate, impacts on pregnancy and fertility and disruption of the sexual development of the fetus that can cause cancer later in life.

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Second, the findings have been obtained with a sample of late - midlife and older couples dealing with prostate cancer, chosen because we assumed that the effects of shared selves would be pronounced in the presence of this illness that affects both husbands and wives (Couper et al., 2006).