Sentences with phrase «months after the cancer»

«We've been married 11 years, and we were married two months after my cancer was diagnosed.

She died 14 months after the cancer death of Hickey's father, John.

An echocardiogram is usually done six to 12 months after cancer treatment with an anthracycline, but how often should it be done after that?»

Not exact matches

The therapy had an outsized effect in African American men, helping those with metastatic castrate - resistant prostate cancer live a median 37.3 months after treatment.

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

In clinical trials the treatment — which involves extracting individual patients» immune T - cells, modifying them to seek out tell - tale biological markers associated with blood cancers like aggressive lymphoma, and then pumping those modified killer cells back into the body — has shown major promise, in some cases eliminating all signs of the cancer in patients six months after treatment.

Prolific musician and master of reinvention David Bowie died at 69 on Sunday after an 18 - month battle with cancer.

That was the case for Jill and Mazen Kamen, who officially launched the Kamen Brain Tumor Foundation last month after losing their 19 - year - old son in April to brain cancer.

This week, after more than three months of searching, Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) announced that IT industry leader Kristin Darby, CPA, MBA, will join the company as its Chief Information Officer.

My father passed away in 2008, after around a 6 month battle with brain and lung cancer.

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

After a few months of battling the cancer, it went away.

In 2002, after he was stricken with terminal cancer, and given just three months to live, Zevon was asked whether his illness had changed his spiritual outlook.

If I had visited you and tried to help you with your physical needs while battling cancer, and you found out, after 3 months of me helping you, I was a pastor [I am], and then you asked me the question, do you think practicing gays will go to hell unless repenting and following Jesus, and I told you, «Yes,» what would you do?

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.

Sally Ride, the first woman to ever travel into space, died today after a 17 - month battle with pancreatic cancer.

Eleven months after her first chemotherapy treatments ended, doctors discovered that the cancer had spread.

Truex's longtime girlfriend, Sherry Pollex, is battling a recurrence of ovarian cancer, crew chief Cole Pearn's close friend died unexpectedly from a bacterial infection in August, and last month crew member James Watson, 55, died after a go - kart team outing on the race weekend at Kansas Speedway.

It was a heartfelt day for the Indianapolis Colts as their head coach Chuck Pagono returned to the sidelines after battling cancer for three months.

A truly amazing mother, Oi Yin died at age forty - one after a 29 month spirited battle with pancreatic cancer.

After standardizing the data for age, menopausal status, and economic standing of her country (so that these factors did not influence the results), this study concluded that a woman who breastfed for 12 months in her life reduced her risk of developing breast cancer by 4.3 %.

I think the cancer reducing benefits of breastfeeding are two fold 1) the breast tissue is «doing it's job» (possibly diminishing impacts after 6 - 8 months) and 2) the breast tissue is protected from hormonal surges relating to menstruation.

Bala was diagnosed with cancer a few months after he publicly admitted that he was HIV positive, a period in which he also lost his mother to a stroke.

Former President Jimmy Carter said that his most recent brain scan showed no signs of cancer, more than three months after he began treatment for four melanoma tumors.

Nearly a fifth (17 %) of women who have been diagnosed with breast cancer after spotting a potential symptom wait over a month before seeing their GP, equating to an estimated 6,000 women every year in the UK, according to calculations based on new YouGov figures released today from Breast Cancercancer after spotting a potential symptom wait over a month before seeing their GP, equating to an estimated 6,000 women every year in the UK, according to calculations based on new YouGov figures released today from Breast CancerCancer Care.

The 48 - year - old Lee says her doctor called her late last month just after she finished a photo shoot for People magazine, telling her she had cancer.

Thompson, the first black district attorney of Brooklyn, died this month after a battle with cancer and was memorialized over the weekend.

She died on Sunday of colon cancer at her home in Manhattan, only eight months after starting the post.

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.

Thompson, who was elected in 2013, announced last week that he was battling cancer after being absent from his office for two months.

Months after water in Newburgh tested positive for elevated rates of a toxic, cancer - linked chemical, the state does not have a plan to conduct blood tests for thousands of residents who likely consumed the polluted water for years.

More than two years later, the cancer was detected by a second physician, three months after the deadline by which she could sue the hospital, which she said had given her a clean bill of health.

Brecon and Radnorshire MP Roger Williams has today shown his support for Prostate Cancer UK and Movember and their mission to change the face of men's health by having his moustache shaved off on the Daily Politics show, after ditching the razor for a month.

The arrests come just months after Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was arrested for an alleged kickback scheme involving real estate deals and asbestos cancer patients.

Lee says she is cancer free and feeling good months after a double mastectomy.

Lee says she is cancer free and feeling good months after a double

I'll give real life examples of nocebo, from the man who almost put himself in a coma after «overdosing» on placebo anti-depressants, to the patient mis - diagnosed with liver cancer who died tumour - free within the three months he was told he had left to live.

The young women were then surveyed about their beliefs regarding cancer and followed for nine months after receiving the first dose to determine vaccination series completion; nearly 350 women participated in the study.

Researchers found that the one - month duration HRT, was associated with a significant improvement in recurrence compared to the two - month duration CRT and therefore would be reasonable to consider in men with intermediate risk prostate cancer and who do not have risk factors that could predispose the patient to bladder side effects several years after the treatment is complete.

In 2011, chemical and biochemical engineer Jessica Winter learned that she had breast cancer — ironically just 3 months after she had begun breast tumor studies in her lab at Ohio State University (OSU), Columbus.

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.

In addition, of all the cases of pancreatic cancer diagnosed after an episode of acute pancreatitis, 55 percent were diagnosed three to 24 months after the episode of pancreatitis.

People who had cancer within the past six months were seven times more likely to develop GBS after surgery than those who did not have cancer.

Overall, 6.5 percent of thyroid cancer patients had general post-operative complications in the month after surgery, and 12 percent had complications specific to thyroid surgery within the year after their operation.

Months after the disaster, Fukushima Prefecture set about examining the thyroids of hundreds of thousands of children and teens for signs of radiation - related cancers.

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.

After six months, Patricia Stamets» tumor disappeared, and today she remains cancer - free.

After following the patients for an average of 52 months, they found that patients with blood group O were 35 % less likely to have a recurrence of prostate cancer than patient who had blood group A.

Men whose blood levels of DNA had decreased at eight weeks after treatment survived an average of 17 months, compared with only 10.1 months for men whose cancer DNA levels remained high.

In 1986, after more than two years of research, Duesberg was so convinced that the HIV theory of AIDS was dead wrong that he spent nine months writing his paper on HIV (pdf) for Cancer Research.