Sentences with phrase «more aggressive forms of the disease»

Men with BRCA1 / 2 mutations who develop prostate cancer tend to develop these cancers at an earlier age than average and may develop more aggressive forms of the disease.

They found that when an MS - like disease was induced in mice genetically engineered to be deficient in Tob1, the mice had significantly earlier onset compared with wild - type mice, and developed a more aggressive form of the disease.

Carriers of germline mutations in BRCA2 have at least five times greater risk of prostate cancer and frequently develop a more aggressive form of the disease.

One reason may be that men in the study seemed to develop Alzheimer's at a younger age than women and had a more aggressive form of the disease.

Not exact matches

Women with the variant were at much higher risk for cancer, had more recurrences, were often hit with multiple cancers and were more likely to die from aggressive forms of these diseases.

The study evaluated 56 patients with ovarian clear cell adenocarcinoma (CCA), an aggressive form of ovarian cancer that is more likely to be resistant to chemotherapy and to have a poorer prognosis than other forms of this disease.

By age 80, more than 50 percent of men will develop prostate cancer but not all will have the aggressive, deadly form of the disease.

Geneticist Xiao - Jiang Li and colleagues recently published a paper in Cell Reports that may explain why more aggressive juvenile - onset forms of polyglutamine diseases have different symptoms and pathology.

While men with the more aggressive form of the cancer make up about 5 % of the 180,000 to 200,000 cases of prostate cancer in the U.S. each year, and only 12 % will have these mutations, that population is still at considerably higher risk of developing advanced disease.

The visceral forms of this disease require more aggressive treatment, and even then, the treatment will not likely be curative.

Also, cats mount a much more aggressive immune response against the worms than do dogs, and the resulting inflammation is responsible for much of the damage in the feline form of this disease.