Sentences with phrase «of glioblastoma patients»

«We know that 70 - 75 percent of glioblastoma patients undergo surgery for tumor debulking, and we have previously shown that MSCs encapsulated in biocompatible gels can be used as therapeutic agents in a mouse model that mimics this debulking,» he continued.

Using data from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), the Dartmouth team demonstrated that Id4 expression correlates with survival of glioblastoma patients and inversely correlates with MMP2 expression.

And a small number of glioblastoma patients do not have CMV in their tumors.

But for the last month or so, they have been making them from brain cells of glioblastoma patients.

A study from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Cancer Center researchers — the first to examine the effects of combined radiation and chemotherapy on the healthy brain tissue of glioblastoma patients — reveals not only specific structural changes within patients» brains but also that the effect of cancer therapy on the normal brain appears to be progressive and continues even after radiation therapy has ceased.

We hope the gene signature we identified can provide the basis for an improved classification of glioblastoma patients and for identifying new targets for therapy,» says Uhrbom.

The NYGC and its founding member institutions are conducting additional studies involving Watson to help accelerate the discovery of potentially actionable sequence variants in various types of cancer, including an ongoing study that involves DNA and RNA from a larger cohort of glioblastoma patients, and a study of 200 patients with different types of cancer.

The fusion of these two genes was observed in just three percent of tumors studied, so any therapy based on this particular genetic aberration would apply to only a small subset of glioblastoma patients.

Fewer than 5 percent of glioblastoma patients live more than 5 years after being diagnosed.

Despite recent advances in understanding this disease, the median survival of glioblastoma patients is only 15 months, and survival statistics have not significantly improved over the past three decades.

«Study reveals effects of chemoradiation in brains of glioblastoma patients: Reduced grey matter volume, enlargement of ventricular space appear to be early, progressive.»