Sentences with phrase «lung cancer patients discovered»

«Link between inherited genetic variations, outcomes of non-small cell lung cancer patients discovered.»

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Researchers only discovered this process in the late 1990s, but they've already begun dozens of clinical trials to gauge whether infusing patients with these small RNAs works against a range of diseases, from lung infections to liver cancer to age - related macular degeneration, a sight - stealing condition that mainly affects people over the age of 50.

But after a biopsy, he was stunned to discover he had late - stage lung cancer, a disease that kills 85 percent of patients within a year.

Alice Shaw recalls a signal moment in 2004 — just as she was finishing her oncology fellowship at MIT — when scientists discovered that mutations in a gene for epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) were the culprits in about 10 to 15 percent of lung cancer patients.

We're discovering new genetic alterations driving lung cancer, new drugs to target these alterations, and are refining our use of tests to find these alterations in individual patients,» says Dara Aisner, MD, PhD, investigator at the University of Colorado Cancer Center, molecular pathologist at CU School of Medicine Department of Pathology, and one of the panel excancer, new drugs to target these alterations, and are refining our use of tests to find these alterations in individual patients,» says Dara Aisner, MD, PhD, investigator at the University of Colorado Cancer Center, molecular pathologist at CU School of Medicine Department of Pathology, and one of the panel exCancer Center, molecular pathologist at CU School of Medicine Department of Pathology, and one of the panel experts.

Last year, scientists tested ordinary household dogs with basic puppy training and discovered they could detect cancer just by smelling the breath of lung and breast cancer patients.