Yes, nanotechnology is becoming ubiquitous in our daily lives and has found its way into many commercial products, for example, strong, lightweight materials for better fuel economy; targeted drug delivery for safer and
more effective cancer treatments; clean, accessible drinking water around the world; superfast computers with vast amounts of storage; self - cleaning surfaces; wearable health monitors; more efficient solar panels; safer food through packaging and monitoring; regrowth of skin, bone, and nerve cells for better medical outcomes; smart windows that lighten or darken to conserve energy; and nanotechnology - enabled concrete that dries more quickly and has sensors to detect stress or corrosion at the nanoscale in roads, bridges, and buildings.
It can support a family who needs extra support or build the laboratory where
more effective cancer treatments are developed.
With improved isotope production, Hogle said, comes
more effective cancer treatments and enhanced research productivity across the scientific spectrum.
Finding ways to spark these potent cells into action could lead to
more effective cancer treatments and vaccines.
«We are going in a direction that few have explored before, and we hope to offer an alternative and potentially
more effective cancer treatment.»
The method can both simplify and enhance cancer diagnostics and thereby lead to
more effective cancer treatment.
Not exact matches
Dan Chen, head of Roche / Genentech's
cancer immunotherapy unit, told Fortune the data were particularly promising since they could lead to Tecentriq becoming a first response
treatment and give additional credence to the company's argument that immunotherapies are
more effective the earlier they're given to patients.
He argued that an industry - wide collaborative effort would hasten
more targeted, personalized, and
effective cancer treatments at a time when innovative new medications like immunotherapies are taking flight.
Blocking this resistance mechanism might lead to
more effective treatments for malignant brain
cancer.
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When breast
cancer is diagnosed early,
treatments are often
more effective and survival rates are higher
Therefore finding quicker,
more effective ways to identify and diagnose these patients is crucial to help GPs and other clinicians identify or rule out bowel
cancer quickly to give people the very best opportunity for successful
treatment.
Nanotax works by flipping the script on how paclitaxel is administered to patients and with how it's formulated, potentially making it a
more effective and better tolerated
treatment for ovarian and other abdominal
cancers.
I am confident that this work will pave the way for
more targeted, efficient and cost -
effective treatment for the millions of
cancer patients globally.»
Looking to target a key pathway in order to interfere with the processes that lead to tumor spread, a research team led by Irwin H. Gelman, Ph.D., of Roswell Park
Cancer Institute (RPCI) has identified a new suppressor of cancer metastasis that may point the way toward development of more effective treatments for prostate cancers and other malignant solid t
Cancer Institute (RPCI) has identified a new suppressor of
cancer metastasis that may point the way toward development of more effective treatments for prostate cancers and other malignant solid t
cancer metastasis that may point the way toward development of
more effective treatments for prostate
cancers and other malignant solid tumors.
«In part, some of the results are explained by
more effective treatments for
cancer and heart disease, with advances in medicine making such physical illnesses easier to treat, whilst there have been less advances in the
treatment of neurological conditions»
But these findings point us to new strategies and novel compounds that can be developed as
treatments that will be
more effective for an array of
cancer types because they are less susceptible to the emergence of resistance.»
Depressed men with localized prostate
cancer were
more likely to be diagnosed with
more aggressive prostate
cancer, received less
effective treatments and survived for shorter times than prostate
cancer patients who were not depressed, a UCLA study has found.
Triple - negative tumors are aggressive and
more likely to metastasize than other breast
cancers, and there is no
effective treatment.
A blood pressure drug may make a type of lung
cancer treatment more effective, suggests a new study.
This discovery, and the clinical trials we have underway, suggest that RB status might be used as means to stratify patients into
more effective treatment regimens,» said William Kevin Kelly, leader of the Prostate
Cancer Program at SKCC.
Steven Curley, associate professor of surgery at the University of Texas Anderson
Cancer Center in Houston, has tested the gel on 15 people and is optimistic that it will provide a more effective treatment for liver cancer, including secondary tumours that have spread from other parts of the
Cancer Center in Houston, has tested the gel on 15 people and is optimistic that it will provide a
more effective treatment for liver
cancer, including secondary tumours that have spread from other parts of the
cancer, including secondary tumours that have spread from other parts of the body.
The team's recent study in mice has found that the
treatment reduced the mass of ovarian
cancer tumors and was
more effective at suppressing tumor growth than chemotherapy.
«We have
effective screening tests for several
cancers, which allow physicians and other health - care providers to identify the disease at an earlier stage — often before symptoms surface — when
treatment is
more likely to result in a cure,» said senior author of the report and IPHI Director Kenneth W. Kizer.
Researchers have long hoped that genetic analysis would provide insight into the biology of pancreatic
cancer and define new targets for
more effective treatment.
«In the meantime, ASCENDE - RT has made an important contribution to the search for a
more effective curative
treatment for prostate
cancer,» he will conclude.
«A better understanding of the biological basis of oestrogen receptor negative breast
cancer may lead to
more effective preventive interventions and
treatments.»
These findings may lead to
more effective treatment strategies against metastatic pancreatic
cancer, which is universally lethal.
Understanding which
cancers might grow from — or simply harbor —
cancer stem cells is key to
more effective treatments, the researchers say.
We hope that our work will contribute to making
cancer treatment more effective, and that we can continue our work in this area.
In addition, Zeitels notes, the
treatment's mechanism of eradicating the blood vessels supplying a tumor — highly
effective for conventional vocal - cord
cancer — is even
more useful for treating tumors caused by HPV infection, which are characterized by an excessive overgrowth of blood vessels.
The Canadian study is especially important because newer,
more effective treatments for breast
cancer were available during the 25 years when study participants were followed.
«We are hopeful that these findings will lead to
more personalized and
effective treatments for prostate
cancer,» said Dr. Sharifi.
«But based on our findings, we think it could fill an unmet need in making the most common
treatment for prostate
cancer more effective.»
«
More people than ever are surviving
cancer due to the development of targeted and
effective treatments,» said Shelley Johns, Psy.D., the clinical health psychologist and health services researcher who led the Regenstrief - IU study.
UCLA scientists have unlocked an important mechanism that allows chemotherapy - carrying nanoparticles — extremely small objects between 1 and 100 nanometers (a billionth of a meter)-- to directly access pancreatic
cancer tumors, thereby improving the ability to kill
cancer cells and hence leading to
more effective treatment outcome of the disease.
But we urgently need to develop better,
more effective treatments so that in the future no one has to fear a
cancer diagnosis.
«Ultimately, figuring out how to target PC may help researchers develop new,
more effective therapeutic strategies to improve upon current lung
cancer treatments, which are limited and harmful.»
UPV / EHU researchers have developed a method for the diagnosis and prognosis of cutaneous melanoma, the type of skin
cancer with the highest mortality rate.This method will help not only in the
more effective early detection of this
cancer, but also in the development of
more personalized
treatments.
This is the result of increases in
cancer diagnoses driven by the aging and growth of the population, as well as the fact that people are living longer with
cancer because of earlier
cancer detection and
more effective treatments.
Hence, the combination of ERK1 / 2 and ERK5 inhibitors may lead to
more effective treatments for colorectal
cancer patients.»
This has the potential to be a less toxic and
more effective treatment than
more standard approaches because it can specifically target
cancer cells.
Rich and colleagues are now testing in mice whether combining Zika with traditional
cancer treatments such as chemotherapy is
more effective than either
treatment by itself.
«Our study on the TACC3 - chTOG interaction will allow cellular biologists and researchers on microtubule dynamics to better understand how microtubule assembly is regulated during cellular division,» says Montoya, and he anticipates that «it could also help in developing new anti-microtubule drugs, providing
more effective therapeutic options in
cancer treatment.»
«Cannabinoids used in sequence with chemotherapy are a
more effective treatment for
cancer, say experts.»
The successful combination of these two therapies results in the growth of specialized vessels that deliver
cancer - fighting immune cells to the tumor, potentially leading to
more effective treatments and longer survival periods.
Although it might be useful to reduce that collateral damage for some applications, he says it could prove beneficial in others — in a
cancer treatment, for example, wiping out «bystander» RNA as well as target RNA might offer a
more effective way to fight a tumour.
Furthermore, they found that D4A is
more effective than abiraterone at killing aggressive prostate
cancer cells, suggesting that some patients may benefit from direct
treatment with D4A.
The findings could lead to
more effective treatments and ways to identify those most at risk of developing the
cancer.
These subtypes known as memory T cells may explain why some immunotherapies are
more effective than others and potentially lead to researchers designing
more effective studies using combination checkpoint blockade
treatments, according to experts at The University of Texas MD Anderson
Cancer Center.