Sentences with phrase «more from chemotherapy»

(Likewise, elderly people suffer more from chemotherapy than the young.)

In other words, patients with a methylation pattern resembling that of healthy people's HSCs (i.e., a «low score») would be more likely to live longer — and therefore benefit more from chemotherapy — than patients with a high score.

Not exact matches

Immunotherapy differs from more traditional cancer treatments, such as surgery (cutting malignant cells out of the body), chemotherapy and radiation (poisoning the deadly mutants), and even the newer, more precise molecular drugs that attempt to jam the protein signals that tell tumor cells to keep dividing and conquering.

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To achieve this goal, the cancer field is moving away from chemotherapy and towards a combination of immunotherapy and targeted therapy, an approach that is more potent and less toxic.

A randomized phase III trial finding that a new monoclonal antibody, elotuzumab, added to standard therapy, extended the duration of remission for patients with relapsed multiple myeloma by about five months Findings from two phase III studies showing that children with Wilms tumor who have a specific chromosomal abnormality do better with a more intensive, augmented chemotherapy regimen

With our colleagues from National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan, we found that an increased level of this protein is associated with aggressive forms of ovarian cancer that are more likely to be resistant to chemotherapy and lead to death.»

«The next step is to test tumors from more human patients and see how the results compare to the response that the patients have to chemotherapy,» said Walsh.

The researchers then compared tumor cells isolated from multiple different breast cancer patients and found that cells expressing lower amounts of Numb - 1 and -2 were more resistant to the chemotherapy agent cisplatin.

If validated in clinical trials, the signature would help physicians better identify which AML patients would benefit from chemotherapy and which patients have a prognosis so grave that they may be candidates for more aggressive treatments such as bone - marrow transplantation.

But in the meantime, it would help if we could identify who won't benefit from standard treatment, so we can spare them the debilitating effects of chemotherapy and get them into clinical trials for experimental therapies that might be more effective.»

More than 80 percent of women with advanced stage high - grade serous ovarian cancer experience relapses even after repeated surgeries and multiple rounds of chemotherapy, and this effective new approach to treat the disease could be a major step forward in preventing cancer from returning.

When the researchers removed FAK from blood vessels that grew in melanoma or lung cancer models, both chemotherapy and radiation therapies were far more effective in killing the tumors.

Research from the University of Southampton has shown a drug, used in combination with chemotherapy to treat advanced colorectal cancer, is not effective in some settings, and indeed may result in more rapid cancer progression.

The old, telomerase - deficient mice also had weaker immune systems and had more trouble recovering from a dose of chemotherapy that killed blood cells.

Men with newly diagnosed metastatic, hormone - sensitive prostate cancer lived more than a year longer when they received a chemotherapy drug as initial treatment instead of waiting to for the disease to become resistant to hormone - blockers, report scientists from Dana - Farber Cancer Institute and the Eastern Co-operative Oncology Group.

(WASHINGTON, June 15, 2017)-- Researchers have developed a two - pronged approach to blood cancer treatment: 1) attacking cancer cells directly and / or 2) driving them from the nurturing bone marrow environment into the peripheral blood streams, where they are more vulnerable (for example, to chemotherapy).

The goal is to understand why some cancer cells more or less lie dormant, while others grow aggressively and why do some cancer cells die from chemotherapy, while others spread unhindered despite treatment.

The work that garnered the honor, «An analysis of the risk and benefit of neoadjuvant chemotherapy among patients undergoing surgery for non-small cell lung cancer,» examined data from more than 134,000 patients in the National Cancer Database to assess the impact of neoadjuvant therapy on perioperative outcomes, as well as long - term survival.

Led by Leena Gandhi, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine and director of thoracic medical oncology, researchers from the KEYNOTE - 021 study demonstrated for the first time that combining an immune checkpoint inhibitor — in this case, pembrolizumab — with a platinum - doublet chemotherapy regimen might be more effective than chemotherapy alone as first - line treatment for advanced, non-squamous NSCLC.

I'm going to give it a try,» or they can say, «Well, I think I'm going to wait for a few more trials, FDA approval,» and they can sit back, but more and more, the public are ready to evaluate science simultaneously and take these very common sense, very easy... Well, behavior is not an easy thing to change, but far easier than taking chemotherapy or disease modifying drugs that are going to shut down your immune system and give you life - threatening side effects, that could let you get your life back from an autoimmune condition, or a serious psychiatric problem, or a severe diabetes, obesity, and heart disease, things that are completely under their control.

For example, the participants with little muscle mass had more frequent problems with serious or life - threatening side effects from chemotherapy [Grade 3 - 4 toxicity] and ended up more frequently in hospital as a result of the chemo side effects [Hospital].

We know that those with metabolic states resulting from a high - carbohydrate diet — including high blood sugar levels, high insulin levels, and obesity — have higher rates of cancer and do more poorly during cancer treatment.13 — 16 We also know that multiple pathways that are downregulated by a ketogenic diet also render cells more susceptible to being killed by chemotherapy and radiation therapy.17

The past century has unveiled a plethora of preclinical data that has suggested the potential of a ketogenic diet as an aid in cancer treatment.7, 8 The benefits of a ketogenic diet, and dietary manipulation in general, may be a potent adjunct to current cancer treatments by synergistically working with chemotherapy and radiation therapy to starve cancer cells, leaving them more susceptible to damage from these treatments.7 - 10

In other words, those who expected to have more side effects from chemotherapy indeed had more side effects.

There are more than four hundred colors and the company donates money from sales to charities helping cancer patients with costs during chemotherapy, and other charities «dedicated to healing».

The field of oncology is moving away from toxic chemotherapies and more toward medicines targeted to tumor mutations and treatments that rev up the immune system.

General practices with open hours offer a wide range of veterinary services from general surgery and dentistry to more advanced procedures such as chemotherapy and cardiology for disease treatment.

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In the mouse models, it was also able to stop tumors from growing and it helped other forms of chemotherapy to work more effectively.