Sentences with phrase «metastases in lung cancer patients»

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Along the same lines, Daniel Sessler, an anesthesiologist at Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, is leading two randomized trials looking at whether nerve blocks added to general anesthesia reduce metastases in patients undergoing surgery to remove either breast or lung cancer.

Many lung cancer trials have traditionally excluded patients with brain metastases at baseline, expecting that the presence of metastases would create negative results that could in turn create the appearance of drug failure.

Research from McMaster University has identified new regulators of brain metastases in patients with lung cancer.

«If you look at a set of lung cancer patients, like we did in the paper, who develop brain metastases, they all have those two genes in their primary lung cancer,» said Sheila Singh, the study's supervisor, associate professor at the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, scientist with the Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institute at McMaster University and neurosurgeon at McMaster Children's Hoscancer patients, like we did in the paper, who develop brain metastases, they all have those two genes in their primary lung cancer,» said Sheila Singh, the study's supervisor, associate professor at the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, scientist with the Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institute at McMaster University and neurosurgeon at McMaster Children's Hoscancer,» said Sheila Singh, the study's supervisor, associate professor at the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, scientist with the Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institute at McMaster University and neurosurgeon at McMaster Children's HosCancer Research Institute at McMaster University and neurosurgeon at McMaster Children's Hospital.

«Rare mutation may extend survival in lung cancer patients with brain metastases.»

«In cancer, it's usually the metastases to the lung, liver or brain that kill the patient, but it's hard to get tissue safely from these areas,» said Rick Lanman, MD, Guardant Health's chief medical officer.

Of the colon cancer patients that develop metastases, 40 % present metastasis first to the liver and later to the lung, always in this clinical order of appearance.

Novel strategies that are effective in treating brain metastases in patients with lung cancer are needed.

DENVER — Leptomeningeal metastases (LM), a devastating complication and predictor of poor survival in lung cancer patients, was found to be more prevalent in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients with epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) mutations.