Sentences with phrase «long after their cancer»

Thanks to advances in cancer research leading to new therapies and prevention strategies, overall people today live six times longer after their cancer diagnosis than they did 40 years ago.

Additionally, pets do not experience the same side effects from chemotherapy that humans do, and often go on to lead healthy lives long after their cancer is gone.

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And when Ziskin's breast cancer had reemerged with brutal efficiency after a long remission, Parker had managed to get her into a last - ditch immunotherapy protocol at the Hutch, the famed Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle — chartering private planes at his own expense to shepherd her back and forth from Los Ancancer had reemerged with brutal efficiency after a long remission, Parker had managed to get her into a last - ditch immunotherapy protocol at the Hutch, the famed Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle — chartering private planes at his own expense to shepherd her back and forth from Los AnCancer Research Center in Seattle — chartering private planes at his own expense to shepherd her back and forth from Los Angeles.

It is all the more special now, because not too long after that, Jeff passed away from cancer.

David Bowie, Jan. 10, age of 69 after an 18 - month - long battle with cancer.

Today, however, after a long battle, he's cancer free.

In February 2016, after the episode of «Blue Collar Millionaires» aired, Long was diagnosed with colon cancer.

Jobs died two months later after a long battle with cancer.

Editor's Note: Bill Campbell passed away Monday after a long battle with cancer.

My brother died in December after a year - long battle with cancer.

When the Nazis invaded Austria in 1938, Freud was allowed to move to London, where he died the next year, after a long, painful struggle with cancer of the mouth.

Not long after, I found myself at a cancer center looking over an oncologist's shoulder and examining my test results on his computer.

One such experience occurred in June when my mother returned home from a month long hospital stay after her most recent skirmish in her battle with cancer.

Yesterday, Camera Obscura's Carey Lander died after a long battle with cancer.

Actually, since cancer is a disease of old age, which kicks in long after most people have done whatever procreating they're going to do, it has zero effect on long - term survivability of the species.

I lost a good friend of mine earlier this year after a long battle with cancer.

Doby, who died at age 79 on June 18 after a long battle with cancer, would become one of the game's best sluggers, even as he remained one of its forgotten heroes, a historical footnote.

As we get excited about comings and goings at the Arse, another excellent one club player from my youth has quietly slipped away into the night, after a long battle with Cancer.

Lewis who played 24 times for United between 1952 and 1955, died in Johannesburg after a long battle with cancer.

It is with great regret that I bring you the news that former Arsenal Football Club director, Danny Fiszman, passed away on Wednesday at the age of 66 after a long battle with cancer.

Education World Loses Human - Development Visionary Dr. Peter L. Benson, president and CEO of Minneapolis - based Search Institute, died Sunday, Oct. 2, after a year - long fight with cancer.

He said doctorly things about there being no long - term studies about pregnancy after estrogen - positive breast cancer, the type that Melissa had survived.

«I am deeply saddened to learn of the passing of my friend Vito Lopez after a long, brave battle with cancer.

The son of Rochester Mayor Tom Richards died Monday after a long battle with cancer.

D'Amico, who died in late December after a long battle with cancer, had held her job since 1991.

Former Irish premier Charles Haughey has died today at the age of 80, after a long battle with prostate cancer.

RIP Matt Graves, a fixture in the local sports writing landscape for decades, who passed away Saturday night at the age of 70 after a long battle with cancer.

Also Tuesday, the Capitol learned that former Sen. Tom Libous, R - Binghamton, died in hospice after a long battle with cancer.

The late former Senate Deputy Majority Leader Tom Libous, 63, who died May 3 after a long battle with cancer, was remembered by his colleagues yesterday on the Senate floor.

Celine Dion's husband Rene Angelil, who discovered the Canadian pop diva and long managed her career, died Thursday aged 73, after a struggle with cancer.

Just months after finding out he had metastatic cancer, former President Jimmy Carter announced this weekend that his doctors have said he no longer needs cancer treatment thanks in part to a groundbreaking new kind of medication that trains the immune system to fight cancer tumors.

He died February 21 after a long battle with cancer.

Former Labour cabinet minister Dame Tessa Jowell (pictured) has died after a year - long fight with brain cancer.

Although long - debated in California, the issue of physician - assisted death gained momentum after Brittany Maynard, a 29 - year - old Californian who was terminally ill, decided to move to Oregon in 2014 to end her life rather than suffer the pain and debilitation caused by brain cancer.

After an hour - long informational session, a follow - up questionnaire found that nearly all attendees were able to correctly answer questions about the rationale for screening, the difference between the need for additional testing and a cancer diagnosis, the benefit of negative screenings as a baseline for future comparisons, and the continued importance of physical examinations.

Important news for men receiving treatment for prostate cancer: Two new studies from the University of Virginia School of Medicine have upended the widely held view that it's best to delay radiation treatment as long as possible after the removal of the prostate in order to prevent unwanted side effects.

However, the rats are protected from breast cancer long after hormone levels return to normal.

The findings inject hard facts into a debate that has long divided the medical community, with many radiation oncologists preferring adjuvant therapy — radiation given soon after prostate removal to kill off any remaining cancer cells — and many urologists preferring salvage therapy — radiation given later, when prostate - specific antigen tests suggest it's needed.

After a year - long process of peer review, the DEMS scientists recently turned over to industry and others copies of two major papers they planned to publish in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

Glioblastoma, the most common brain tumor in adults, has no effective long - term treatment and on average, patients live for 12 to 15 months after diagnosis, according to the National Cancer Institute.

The «clear dose - response and time response trend» in the use of PPIs and stomach cancer risk, prompt them to suggest that doctors «should exercise caution when prescribing long - term PPIs... even after successful eradication of H plyori.»

Now, more than 100 years after his first fateful success, cancer researchers are still traveling the path Coley blazed long ago.

After phase III trials, reported in 2006, ended in disappointment for the prostate cancer vaccine Provenge (made by Dendreon in Seattle), subsequent analyses revealed that men whose prostate cancer had spread survived a median of 4.5 months longer than those given a placebo.

Patients aged 65 years and older are living longer after lung cancer surgery, and with older people representing a rapidly growing proportion of patients diagnosed with lung cancer, this improved survival is especially significant, according to an article posted online today by The Annals of Thoracic Surgery..

It will not be easy, but Porter is hopeful that one day doctors specializing in other cancers will experience what he did when examining one of his leukemia patients not long after that phone call on the quad: He felt under the man's arm for his lymph nodes, which had been enlarged by the cancer for years.

The U.S. study testing the long - term benefits and risks of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) was halted after an interim analysis found that the drugs — a combination of estrogen and progestin — increased the risk of breast cancer, stroke, and heart disease, and that those risks outweighed reduced risks of colorectal cancer and bone fractures (ScienceNOW, 9 July).

After treatment with AZA, the epigenetic changes were reversed, rendering the cancer cells unable to evade the immune system any longer.

After a successful postdoc at the Ontario Cancer Institute, where he developed a proprietary platform for the discovery of novel cancer therapeutic agents, Bray was asked to join the former Amgen Research Institute in Toronto (now called the Advanced Medical Discovery Institute and no longer part of the parent company) as the head of their quantitative biology group and act as liaison to Amgen Inc. in CalifCancer Institute, where he developed a proprietary platform for the discovery of novel cancer therapeutic agents, Bray was asked to join the former Amgen Research Institute in Toronto (now called the Advanced Medical Discovery Institute and no longer part of the parent company) as the head of their quantitative biology group and act as liaison to Amgen Inc. in Califcancer therapeutic agents, Bray was asked to join the former Amgen Research Institute in Toronto (now called the Advanced Medical Discovery Institute and no longer part of the parent company) as the head of their quantitative biology group and act as liaison to Amgen Inc. in California.

Researchers have identified a group of immune system genes that may play a role in how long people can live after developing a common type of brain cancer called glioblastoma multiforme, a tumor of the glial cells in the brain.

The authors stressed that the long - term reduction in aggressive disease was observed only in men after more than a year of testosterone use, and the risk of prostate cancer did not differ between gels and other types of preparations.