Sentences with phrase «of aggressive cancers»

Obesity has direct consequences on health and is associated with the onset of aggressive cancers, but the mechanisms underlying this phenomenon are little known.

To find effective treatment it is imperative to understand the biology of these aggressive cancers.

While some forms of aggressive cancers can not be cured, your pet's quality of life can be greatly enhanced when detected early.

More precise dosing methods and cellular engineering techniques show promise in the effort to improve treatment of aggressive cancers with personalized cellular therapies, according to new studies from researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine and the Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania and The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

«The goal is to find specific biomarkers of aggressive cancers,» said Charles Brendler, MD, Co-Director of the John and Carol Walter Center for Urological Health & Program for Personalized Cancer Care at NorthShore and author of the study.

Silverman, too, suspected an RNA virus might be the infectious cause of aggressive cancers in relatively young men.

In the largest group of results to date, researchers from Penn Medicine's Abramson Cancer Center and other institutions have shown in clinical trials that the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) blocked autophagy in a host of aggressive cancers — glioblastoma, melanoma, lymphoma and myeloma, renal and colon cancers — and in some cases helped stabilize disease.

«Pinpointing specific differences in how cancer cells function is critical in the development of targeted treatments, especially for these types of aggressive cancers that often recur and don't respond well to standard treatments like chemotherapy.»

Combined treatment with two cancer immunotherapy drugs — one a novel immune modulator and one that focuses and activates the antitumor immune response — significantly prolonged survival in mouse models of the aggressive cancer malignant mesothelioma.

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.

The first expedition returned with reports of a pristine, Edenic landscape; all the members of the second expedition committed suicide; the third expedition died in a hail of gunfire as its members turned on one another; the members of the eleventh expedition returned as shadows of their former selves, and within months of their return, all had died of aggressive cancer.

The authors suggest the research may point to new paradigms in both the diagnosis and treatment of aggressive cancers, like AML.

«These observations in mouse models of prostate cancer, using a sophisticated genetic approach developed by James Horner at MD Anderson, illuminate a clinical path hypothesis for combining immune checkpoint blockades with MDSC - targeted therapies in the treatment of this aggressive cancer.»