Sentences with phrase «new type of cancer»

Now a study adds a new type of cancer to the list, and it's an unexpected one: Brown University researchers say that drinking, even in moderate amounts, is associated with higher rates of melanoma — the deadliest form of skin cancer.

The breakthrough led to a new type of cancer pharmaceutical, the tyrosine kinase inhibitor.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) researchers have successfully designed and improved a new type of cancer - killing compound by performing molecular surgery to stabilize the molecule so that it...

A Mayo Clinic research team has developed a new type of cancer - fighting nanoparticle aimed at shrinking breast cancer tumors, while also preventing recurrence of the disease.

It also may have helped several others by boosting the power of a new type of cancer drug that uses a different mechanism to unleash an immune attack on the tumor.

When scientists reported 2 years ago that mice with certain gut bacteria responded best to a powerful new type of cancer drug, other researchers were intrigued but cautious — mice, after all, aren't humans.

A new type of cancer vaccine has yielded promising results in an initial clinical trial conducted at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania.

Now, by harnessing advances in genome editing to slice and dice genes in donor T cells, researchers have created a new type of cancer immunotherapy.

A new type of cancer drug developed at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, but not yet tested in clinical trials may have triggered the deaths of three patients who were undergoing an alternative cancer treatment by a nonmedical practitioner in Germany.

U.S. regulators this week approved the first drug for a new type of cancer treatment, confirming a theme some stock pickers have found in biotech.

On Wednesday, Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis made history as the first company to win Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for a groundbreaking new type of cancer treatment known as CAR - T.

The researchers believe this approach can potentially be used to link hundreds of building blocks to create multidrug - carrying nanoparticles, and pave the way for entirely new types of cancer treatments, free from the damaging side effects that accompany traditional chemotherapy.

The approach, they say, could be expanded to allow a nanoparticle to carry hundreds more, paving the way for new types of cancer treatments.

Not exact matches

But BMS» rival treatment Opdivo has been significantly outpacing Merck in sales, and the company is trying to amass new approvals for treatments to different types of cancers as quickly as possible.

So, Loncar took matters into his own hands and created a new type of biotech index that focuses exclusively on the red - hot field of cancer immunotherapy drugs (treatments which use the body's immune system as a conduit to fight cancer).

Last month, Novartis AG (NOVN.S) won U.S. approval for the first of a new type of potent gene - modifying immunotherapy for leukemia, a $ 475,000 treatment that marks the start of a potential new treatment paradigm for some cancers.

HERERA: Merck (NYSE: MRK) was one of the best performing stocks on the blue chip Dow index today, after the drug company «s new type of lung cancer drug performed better than expected in a highly anticipated clinical trial.

Effective PARP inhibitors are particularly sought after by drugmakers because of their potential to be used in combination with other types of cancer treatments to create new breakthroughs in treatments.

The act of breastfeeding, designed by God to sustain new life, imparts protection to the mother from certain types of cancer and other diseases.

While the David vs. Goliath type games are typically avoided by bettors, these early season tournaments (Puerto Rico Tip - Off, Charleston Classic, 2K Sports Classic [North Dakota and New York], Paradise Jam [Virgin Islands], Coaches vs. Cancer Classic [New York], Maui Invitational, etc.) are almost always the most bet games of the day.

The new study links UVB as protective to a total of 16 types of cancer, primarily epithelial (pertaining to the surface) cancers of the digestive and reproductive systems [Grant, submitted].

The new law will make volunteer firefighters who have been diagnosed with certain types of cancer will be eligible to receive health benefits.

Also at 10:30 a.m., the Firemen's Association of the State of New York, the state Association of Fire Chiefs and the state Association of Fire Districts call on Cuomo to sign legislation providing coverage for volunteer firefighters diagnosed with certain types of cancer, Valhalla Fire Department Headquarters, 330 Columbus Ave., Valhalla.

The Lund researchers have already started new studies in which a larger number of women will be monitored from breast cancer diagnosis and onwards, as well as testing ctDNA methods in other cancer types.

The new research, published recently as two separate studies in ACS Central Science and the Journal of the American Chemical Society, demonstrates that a new class of drugs called small molecule RNA inhibitors can successfully target and kill specific types of cancer.

Regardless of career path, one thing is certain: New technologies will continue to bring more and different types of data to cancer genomics and immunotherapy.

Revving up the immune system to combat a wide variety of tumor types may take cancer therapy in a new direction, says Khaled Barakat, a computational scientist at the University of Alberta in Canada, who was not involved in the study.

In a paper published in the May 5 online issue of The Oncologist, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center detail their experience evaluating 34 patients between December 2012 and June 2013 using a molecular tumor board — a new type of advisory group comprised of multidisciplinary experts, including those in the fields of tumor genetics, basic science and bioinformatics.

In addition to protecting against 80 percent of cervical cancers, the new 9 - Valent human papillomavirus vaccine, which includes seven cancer causing HPV - types, has the potential to protect against nearly 19,000 other cancers diagnosed in the United States, including anal, oropharyngeal and penile cancers.

A single protein building block commonly found in food may hold a key to preventing the spread of an often - deadly type of breast cancer, according to a new multicenter study published today in the medical journal Nature.

We hope that these new insights will allow us to increase our understanding of the molecular mechanisms that result in cancer and to more effectively treat this aggressive type of leukemia.»

The findings — published today in Nature — provide significant insights into cell types fated to relapse and can help accelerate the quest for new, upfront therapies, says Dr. Dick, a Senior Scientist at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, and Professor in the Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto.

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.»

A new cancer blood test worked better for some types than others, and caught only 43 % of stage 1 cancers.

«Our findings suggest that this new drug combination would also help patients with this type of aggressive breast cancer as well as other cancers, such as lung, prostate and ovarian cancers,» Dr. Rassool says.

The discovery, published today in the journal Nature Communications, opens the door to the development of new therapeutic targets to fight these types of cancer.

A blood pressure drug may make a type of lung cancer treatment more effective, suggests a new study.

Higher levels of leisure - time physical activity were associated with lower risks for 13 types of cancers, according to a new study published online by JAMA Internal Medicine.

Rewinding skin cells back to their origins in the womb could provide a powerful new vaccine against multiple types of cancer.

The common ulcer - causing bug linked this summer to reduced rates of childhood asthma and allergies may also help protect adults against one type of cancer, according to a new analysis.

Qingdong Zheng, a materials scientist at John Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, suggests that such biolasers could find uses in new types of sensors or in light - based therapeutics, in which light is used, for example, to kill cancer cells by triggering drugs into action that have already been administered.

«New therapeutic target for a type of colorectal cancer with poor prognosis has been identified.»

The research of different types of cancer and the testing of new treatments depends on accurate mouse models.

«Last week's vote represents 30 years» worth of work to find a new way to treat this devastating cancer and the start of a new era in using personalized immunotherapy to treat other types of cancers.»

They knew that they had found a new type of genetic defect, because the DNA in cancer cells from people with the altered gene was riddled with mutations.

The drug's mechanism of action was entirely new: Instead of attacking cancer cells (like chemo), or indiscriminately revving up the immune system (like IL - 2), ipilimumab blocked a single receptor on one type of immune cell.

New research led by Li Ding, Ph.D., of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, shows that current approaches to genome analysis systematically miss detecting a certain type of complex mutation in cancer patients» tumors.

«New breast cancer drug defeats the Ras genes notorious for causing many types of cancer.»

The latest weapons in modern medicine's arsenal are two new vaccines that were recently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for preventing this type of cancer altogether.

In a new study published in Scientific Reports, Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU)- led researchers investigated photodynamic detection of cancer stem cells in a glioma cell line, a model of a highly aggressive type of brain cancer.