Sentences with phrase «most aggressive disease»

«We thought that if we could understand how some people live several years with this most aggressive disease, we might be able to develop a new therapeutic strategy.»

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Now, immunotherapy — a type of treatment that harnesses the patient's immune system to combat the disease — represents the future of cancer treatment, with its efficacy being demonstrated in even the most aggressive types of cancer.

DNMT3A is among the most frequently mutated genes in an aggressive type of leukemia, and it plays a significant role in how this disease develops.

In most patients, the disease will stay inactive for years, while in others, it will suddenly erupt and turn into an aggressive and life threatening cancer.

«Because the disease is so aggressive, patients may receive no treatment at all or if they are given an option it will be for just one line of treatment, so it's essential that the most suitable treatment is identified quickly.

Together with clinical researchers, they are preparing treatments for glioblastoma — the most aggressive brain cancer in adults — , Friedreich's Ataxia — a hereditary neurodegenerative disease — , and a type of paediatric brain cancer.

For most patients — including actor Patrick Swayze, who died this week as a result of this aggressive malignancy — abdominal pain, weight loss and jaundice are the disease's first indicators, and their onset usually occurs after the cancer has metastasized, erasing any possible benefit of surgery.

One of the most aggressive forms of malaria parasite binds in brain blood vessels, causing a disease called cerebral malaria.

This provides a potential target for treating triple negative breast cancer, the most aggressive form of the disease.

Most people with Alzheimer's disease and other memory - affecting conditions also get aggressive, agitated, depressed, anxious, or delusional from time to time, says senior author Helen C. Kales, M.D., head of the U-M Program for Positive Aging and Geriatric Psychiatry at the University of Michigan Health System and investigator at the VA Center for Clinical Management Research.

Since most men with prostate cancer have indolent (non-aggressive) disease for which conservative therapy or surveillance would be appropriate treatment, the clinical challenge is not only how to identify those with prostate cancer, but also how to distinguish those who would benefit from surgical or other aggressive treatment from those who would not.

Frequent exposure to ultraviolet (UV) rays for individuals under the age of 35 increases the risk of developing melanoma — the most aggressive and deadliest form of skin cancer — by 75 percent, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

NAFLD includes a spectrum of chronic hepatic (liver) diseases, with NASH being the most aggressive type.

There aren't a lot effective treatments for this aggressive disease — it's resistant to most chemotherapy — and so the need for new approaches is great.

Consequently, most patients with advanced disease have died from a local recurrence of their tumor, even after aggressive treatment.

Although most of the variants individually confer moderate risk, they are common and some are linked to more than less aggressive disease.

Purpose of Study: Lymphoma, the most common hematopoietic tumor of dogs, is an aggressive disease.

Proponents of gassing say it is necessary for aggressive, diseased or distressed animals, but obviously most shelters euthanize them without CO gas.Â

Pit bull terrier dogs and puppies are the most frequently and unjustly targeted by breed discriminatory legislation as inherently vicious, aggressive and dangerous, though this is not the case, as shown by research, studies and policies from the National Canine Research Council, the Center for Disease Control and the American Bar Association.

It's an aggressive cancer that attacks the blood vessel cells and German shepherds are one of the breeds most prone to the disease.

Lafora disease is a fatal, autosomal recessive, progressive, intractable myoclonic epilepsy and is recognized as one of the most aggressive and most severe forms of epilepsy.

The aggressive disease came upon her quickly and before we knew it, most of her lymph nodes were swollen and she was already Stage V.