Sentences with phrase «of aggressive brain cancer»

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Last night Sen. John McCain's office announced the maverick politician had been diagnosed with a type of aggressive brain cancer called glioblastoma.

«Metabolic molecule drives growth of aggressive brain cancer.»

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The senator from Arizona returned Monday to Washington, DC, less than a week after being diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer and less than two weeks after he had brain surgery.

On Tuesday, McCain returned to Washington shortly after doctors diagnosed him with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer.

As he battles brain cancer and the debilitating side effects of his aggressive treatment, McCain himself is reckoning with his history and the future, as he and a stream of friends share memories and say what needs to be said.

There is at least one approved device and scores of experimental treatments being tested that could improve the odds of longer - term survival for patients with the type of extremely aggressive brain cancer afflicting U.S. Sen. John McCain.

Dr Harry Bulstrode at the University of Cambridge has received a Cancer Research UK Pioneer Award * to test the effect of the Zika virus on glioblastoma, the most common and aggressive form of brain tumour.

An experimental drug in early development for aggressive brain tumors can cross the blood - brain tumor barrier, kill tumor cells and block the growth of tumor blood vessels, according to a study led by researchers at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center — Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC — James).

A «Trojan horse» treatment for an aggressive form of brain cancer, which involves using tiny nanoparticles of gold to kill tumour cells, has been successfully tested by scientists.

Glioblastoma multiforme is the most common and aggressive form of brain cancer, with a median survival of about 15 months.

«We have identified a code of «molecular switches» that control a very aggressive subpopulation of brain cancer cells, so - called glioblastoma stem cells,» says Mario Suvà, MD, PhD, of the MGH Department of Pathology and Center for Cancer Research, co-lead author of the Cell arcancer cells, so - called glioblastoma stem cells,» says Mario Suvà, MD, PhD, of the MGH Department of Pathology and Center for Cancer Research, co-lead author of the Cell arCancer Research, co-lead author of the Cell article.

A paper he published early this year in the Journal of Clinical Oncology describes a dendritic cell vaccine in advanced glioma, an aggressive form of brain cancer.

Green and his colleagues focused on glioblastomas, the most lethal and aggressive form of brain cancer.

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.

This new generation of viruses has been genetically «targeted and armed,» says Winald Gerritsen of the VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam, who is involved in an early human trial of an engineered adeno - associated virus that attacks glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer.

Researchers at the University of Calgary's Hotchkiss Brain Institute (HBI) and Southern Alberta Cancer Research Institute (SACRI) have made a discovery that could prolong the life of people living with glioblastoma — the most aggressive type of brain caBrain Institute (HBI) and Southern Alberta Cancer Research Institute (SACRI) have made a discovery that could prolong the life of people living with glioblastoma — the most aggressive type of brain cCancer Research Institute (SACRI) have made a discovery that could prolong the life of people living with glioblastoma — the most aggressive type of brain cabrain cancercancer.

However, because of the aggressive way glioblastomas invade surrounding brain tissue, it is impossible to remove all parts of the tumors, and the cancer eventually returns and spreads.

This included glioblastoma, the most aggressive of brain tumours, as well as lung, prostate, ovarian, breast, pancreatic and skin cancer.

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.

Genetically modified «hunter» T cells successfully migrated to and penetrated a deadly type of brain tumor known as glioblastoma (GBM) in a clinical trial of the new therapy, but the cells triggered an immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment and faced a complex mutational landscape that will need to be overcome to better treat this aggressive cancer, Penn Medicine researchers report in a new study this week in Science Translational Medicine.

Women with particularly aggressive forms of breast cancer could be identified by a test that predicts whether the disease is likely to spread to the brain.

A new study shows coibamide A has potent anti-cancer activity in mice and cell cultures that model brain tumors and triple negative breast cancer, two of the most aggressive and difficult - to - treat types of cancer.

Patients with a particularly aggressive type of brain cancer typically don't have many treatment options.

Glioblastoma is a particularly aggressive type of brain cancer.

Glioblastoma is the most common and the most aggressive form of brain cancer in adults, with average survival after diagnosis of around 15 months.

In a 2012 study published in Science, the CUMC team found that some cases of glioblastoma, the most common and aggressive form of primary brain cancer, are caused by the fusion of two genes, FGFR3 and TACC3.

«What we see over and over in trying to treat some of the most aggressive and intractable cancers, including many lung, brain, ovarian, breast, melanoma and sarcoma tumors, is that the tumor fights back.

University of Hawai'i Cancer Center researchers have identified an essential driver of tumor cell invasion in glioblastoma, the most aggressive form of brain cancer that can occur at anCancer Center researchers have identified an essential driver of tumor cell invasion in glioblastoma, the most aggressive form of brain cancer that can occur at ancancer that can occur at any age.

Study looked at genetics of a very aggressive brain cancer found primarily in children called medulloblastoma.

By mimicking a molecular switch that triggers cell death, researchers have killed cells grown in the laboratory from one of the most resilient and aggressive cancers - a virulent brain cancer known...

Glioblastoma multiforme is the most common and aggressive primary brain tumor and has one of the worst survival rates of all cancers.

The study, run by Washington University and the University of California San Diego, used 33 lab mice with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer.

Researchers led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists have worked out how a crucial cancer - related protein, a «histone writer» called Ezh2, plays a role in suppressing as well as driving the most aggressive form of the brain tumor medulloblastoma.

A 65 - year old woman who was suffering from glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), an aggressive type of brain cancer, was put into a restricted ketogenic diet that started with water fasting and then proceeded to consume 600 calories a day only.

Glioblastoma is a nasty, aggressive form of brain cancer with a poor prognosis and not much in the way of effective treatments.

According to recent Bulletproof Radio (iTunes) podcast guest Kris Smith, MD, a top neurosurgeon who specializes in brain tumors at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, the downside of some aggressive cancer treatments is that they can cause lifelong side effects in survivors.

From 1999 to 2005, Armstrong won seven consecutive Tour de France titles inspiring millions as a cancer survivor who had not only beaten an an aggressive bout of testicular cancer in 1996 that had spread to his abdomen, lungs, brain and lymph nodes, but bounced back to become a world champion.

While his new venture has Anastos brimming with excitement, there is another cause that constantly remains front and center in his mind: the loss of his mom to glioblastoma, an extremely aggressive form of brain cancer.