Sentences with phrase «lymphocytic leukemia cancers»

Lymphoma / lymphosarcoma or lymphocytic leukemia cancers can make total lymphocytes counts go both up or down.

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A series of preliminary Mayo Clinic studies conducted in 2010 showed promise for the potential use of a chemical component of green tea (epigallocatechin gallate) in reducing the number of cancer cells in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

The risk for acute lymphocytic leukemia, lymphoma, and brain cancer is highest for children whose fathers have been heavy smokers for long periods of time.

In addition to ALL, asparaginase is also used to treat rarer cancers such as lymphosarcoma, Hodgkin's disease, chronic lymphocytic leukemia, reticulosarcoma and melanosarcoma.

The authors conclude that FL118 - based therapy may be beneficial for a subgroup of cancer patients with tumors such as chronic lymphocytic leukemia and melanomas, in which MdmX overexpression confers treatment resistance.

A year later, Carlo Croce, now director of the Human Cancer Genetics Program at Ohio State University, reported that chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), the most common form of the disease, was caused by deletion of two microRNA genes.

«We have seen SF3B1 mutation in chronic lymphocytic leukemia and in myeloid dysplastic disorders, and now we show its importance in mucosal melanoma,» says Aik Choon Tan, PhD, investigator at the CU Cancer Center and associate professor of Bioinformatics at the CU School of Medicine.

Some other lncRNAs have been found at higher levels in breast, stomach, lung, prostate cancer and chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

2/12/2008 Gene Therapy Protocol at UCSD Activates Immune System in Patients with Leukemia A research team at the Rebecca and John Moores UCSD Cancer Center at University of California, San Diego (UCSD) reports that patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) who were treated with a gene therapy protocol began making antibodies tLeukemia A research team at the Rebecca and John Moores UCSD Cancer Center at University of California, San Diego (UCSD) reports that patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) who were treated with a gene therapy protocol began making antibodies tleukemia (CLL) who were treated with a gene therapy protocol began making antibodies that r...

MGUS can also become cancer, such as multiple myeloma, lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma, or chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

As a long time chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) cancer patient, Marty Smith has every reason to be bullish on cancer.

Leukemia is a cancer of the bone marrow and blood and is classified by cell type and rate of growth: acute lymphocytic, chronic lymphocytic, acute myeloid, and chronic myeloid.

The most common types of cancer in children under the age of 15 are acute lymphocytic leukemia, brain tumors, neuroblastoma, and non-Hodgkin lymphoma, while the most common types in adolescents between the ages of 15 - 19 are Hodgkin lymphoma, thyroid carcinoma, brain cancer, and testicular germ cell tumors.

The new results — from trials for patients with advanced lymphoma, multiple myeloma, and pancreatic cancer — expand on Penn's work with chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) therapies, building on findings in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia and acute lymphoblastic leukemia dating back to the start of the first clinical trial in 2010.

Currently, the CDK9 inhibitor flavopiridol is being evaluated in several phase I and II clinical trials for its anti-cancer effects either as a single agent or in combination with other drugs in treatment of esophageal cancer, B - cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia, endometrial carcinoma, recurrent / metastatic squamous cell carcinoma and most relevantly, previously treated locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer (http://www.cancernetwork.com/review-article/current-clinical-trials-flavopiridol/page/0/2).

I was recently diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), which is essentially bone cancer, where the white blood cells become malignant, multiple, and crowd out the red blood cells.

B - cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (B - CLL) is a common cancer in dogs, but little is known about the disease, including its clinical progression and survival expectations for patients.

Various diseases that could be associated with old age such as diabetes, inflamed bowels, cancer, hyperthyroidism, lymphocytic leukemia, etc..

Among patients with relapsed / refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia, those who have higher stress related to their cancer experience at the start of treatment have worse psychological functioning during the first five months of treatment.

Findings suggest cancer - specific stress at treatment initiation may be a risk factor for poorer psychological functioning during treatment for patients with relapsed / refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

To examine cancer - specific stress at treatment initiation as a predictor of psychological and physical functioning trajectories in patients with relapsed / refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia during the first 5 months of treatment.