Sentences with phrase «on cancer tumour»

The research is the 1st to make a comparison between the cancer - fighting potency of marine versus plant - derived omega - 3s on cancer tumour development.

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Darzalex, however, has not yet reached its peak potential as the drug moves into earlier stages of the disease and is being tested on solid tumours like lung cancer.

Comrades, developments over the past year on both the political and social front have once again exposed the extent of political and social disorder and dishonesty that is eating our country up like a malignant tumour — a debilitating cancer!

I'll give real life examples of nocebo, from the man who almost put himself in a coma after «overdosing» on placebo anti-depressants, to the patient mis - diagnosed with liver cancer who died tumour - free within the three months he was told he had left to live.

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.

Only cancer cells that received these growth factors switched on this pathway, and only they could seed new tumours when injected into mice.

In this study, the authors investigated the associations between various body measurements at baseline, mainly BMI and waist circumference, and the risk of prostate cancer incidence, with a focus on tumour stage and grade, and on mortality from prostate cancer.

Commenting on the results for ESMO, Dr Evandro de Azambuja, Head of the Medical Support Team, Academic Promoting Team, Jules Bordet Institute, Brussels, Belgium, said: «This study shows that it's not only tumour size that is important for breast cancer patients but also tumour biology.

«We can use different approaches to reverse methylation,» she says, «turning silenced genes back on, and seeing whether we can prevent the tumours from occurring or treat the cancer after it has appeared.»

This finding is significant in helping to develop personalised diagnostic tests for patients with colorectal cancer based on the genetic changes present in each individual's colon tumour.

Steven Curley, associate professor of surgery at the University of Texas Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, has tested the gel on 15 people and is optimistic that it will provide a more effective treatment for liver cancer, including secondary tumours that have spread from other parts of theCancer Center in Houston, has tested the gel on 15 people and is optimistic that it will provide a more effective treatment for liver cancer, including secondary tumours that have spread from other parts of thecancer, including secondary tumours that have spread from other parts of the body.

Some cancer drugs stop tumours by blocking the signalling pathway that allows the tumour to grow, effectively placing a lock on a protein «door».

According to Rottenberg, this new immunotherapy has been only modestly successful when used on other frequent tumours such as breast cancer - also, it results in side - effects and enormous costs.

During recent trials at the Moffit Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida, the treatment successfully removed a tumour on a patient's nose.

When The Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network reported its genomic profiling of clear - cell kidney tumours, about one - quarter of participants (126 patients) had been operated on at Memorial Sloan Kettering3.

Lead author Moustafa Abdalla writes: «Almost all genomic studies of breast cancer have focused on well - established tumours because it is technically challenging to study the earliest mutational events occurring in human breast epithelial cells.»

The team used five types of antibiotics — including one used to treat acne (doxycycline)-- on cell lines of eight different types of tumour and found that four of them eradicated the cancer stem cells in every test.

Commenting on the findings, Prof Robert Pirker, programme director for lung cancer at the Vienna General Hospital in Vienna, Austria, not involved in the study, said: «This subgroup analysis shows that the effect of necitumumab was slightly greater in patients with EGFR expressing tumours than it was in the entire SQUIRE population.

New research on bowel cancer has shown that every tumour is different, and that every cell within the tumour is also genetically unique.

They also showed that the level of tumour DNA in the blood reflects the amount of cancer seen on scans carried out before chemotherapy.

The team worked on tissue from three patients with colorectal cancer, taking normal bowel stem cells and cells from four different areas of the tumours.

THE Pentagon is turning its attention from the war on communism to the war on cancer by adapting military technologies to detect breast tumours.

Ovarian cancer researchers have identified a protein biomarker expressed on the surface of tumour cells in high - grade serous ovarian cancer, the most common and lethal subtype of the disease.

It could have implications for HIV patients, both with and without cancer, as it can work on HIV reservoirs and tumour cells independently.

My future career plans ideally would be to continue as a postdoc in tumour immunology and also to continue working on the Cancer Compass.

Research fields are diverse, including basic research on cell proliferation, analysis of tumour cells and tissues to detect gene mutations, and identification of potential therapeutic targets in cancer.

The panel also called for «aggressive research» on using RU486 and other drugs in the antiprogrestin class as contraceptives and as treat - ment for endometriosis, uter - ine fibroids, advanced breast cancer and meningioma brain tumours.

Olaparib stopped prostate cancer growth, generating falls in prostate specific antigen (PSA) levels, falls in circulating tumour cell counts in the blood, and radiological responses on CT scans and MRI.

The data included information on the age of diagnosis, region of residence, deprivation, ethnicity, tumour size, grade, oestrogen receptor status (ER), Herceptin receptor status (HER2), and whether or not the cancer had spread to the lymph nodes.

This opens up the exciting possibility of delivering precise treatment for advanced prostate cancer, guided by genomic testing and based on the particular molecular characteristics of patients» tumours.

The study, which is published in the journal Nature Communications, was conducted on human tumour cells and on mice, and offers hope of a much improved therapy for a severe form of cancer.

After injecting them into the bloodstream, we are able to gather them around the tumour using magnets and ensure that they don't kill the healthy cells,» explains Asst Prof Xu, who has been working on cancer diagnosis and drug delivery systems since 2004.

Mutations in a gene that helps regulate when genes are switched on and off in cells have been found to cause rare cases of Wilms tumour, the most common kidney cancer occurring in children.

This helps to ensure that the drugs can reach the cancer cells on the surface and also inside the core of the tumour.»

Dr Claus Jorgensen, who led the research at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, and at Cancer Research UK's Manchester Institute at the University of Manchester, said: «The next step is to figure out how to keep this receptor switched on, so that the tumour cells can't leave the blood vessels — stopping breast cancer spreading and making the disease easier to treat successfully.&Cancer Research, London, and at Cancer Research UK's Manchester Institute at the University of Manchester, said: «The next step is to figure out how to keep this receptor switched on, so that the tumour cells can't leave the blood vessels — stopping breast cancer spreading and making the disease easier to treat successfully.&Cancer Research UK's Manchester Institute at the University of Manchester, said: «The next step is to figure out how to keep this receptor switched on, so that the tumour cells can't leave the blood vessels — stopping breast cancer spreading and making the disease easier to treat successfully.&cancer spreading and making the disease easier to treat successfully.»

So they then went on to study the genomes of a type of paediatric brain cancer characterised not only by a mutated polymerase — like in the tumours previously examined — but also by an inactivated repair system.

Using samples from 280 breast cancer patients, the researchers found that tamoxifen had a weak or limited effect on tumours with a highly active BCAR4 gene.

*** It is directed against the 5T4 / WAIF1 tumour antigen, a protein found on many different solid tumours and is thought to contribute to the spread of cancer cells.

Commenting on the significance of the research, Dr Pilar Garrido, head of the Thoracic Tumour Section of the Medical Oncology Department at Ramón y Cajal University Hospital, Madrid, Spain, said: «Lung cancer is the most common cancer globally, but debate about the optimal screening strategy is ongoing and current selection criteria are based only on age and pack - years.

As seen with pseudo-coloured scanning electron microscopy, two cell - killing T - cells (red) attack a squamous mouth cancer cell (white) after a patient received a vaccine containing antigens identified on the tumour.

We target tumours by exploring how the proteins found on the cancer cell surface can be utilised to inhibit growth or kill tumours.

Professor Chris Jones talked to us about building a world - class research programme focused on finding the genes that drive childhood brain tumours, and his hopes for these hard - to - treat cancers.

«We showed that there are markers on these stomach tumour cells that indicate they would be responsive to a type of immunotherapy called immune checkpoint inhibitors, in particular anti-PDL1 immunotherapy, which is already used with great success in the treatment of melanoma and certain other cancers.

Instead, Ippolito and colleagues analyzed cross-sectional CT scans, which are routinely performed on people newly diagnosed with kidney cancer to measure the size of tumours and to look for metastases.

No study contained data on the effect of quitting smoking on cancer specific mortality or on development of a second primary tumour in non-small cell lung cancer.

Dr. Francois Benard's team focuses on developing and using imaging techniques to characterise tumours in patients, and in animal models of cancer.

This week saw new research on brain tumour and ovarian cancers, while MPs launched an inquiry into e-cigarettes.

However, when crossed with PyMT - Tg mice or MMTV / Neu (mouse mammary tumour virus promoter - Neu)- Tg mice, the development and progression of breast cancer were markedly decreased on Slc6a14 − / − background.

On the basis of studies on the XMRV - producing human prostate cancer cell lines CWR22Rν1 and CWR - R1 and their progenitor tumour xenograft CRW22, they concluded that XMRV infections were caused by contamination during in vivo passaging in nude micOn the basis of studies on the XMRV - producing human prostate cancer cell lines CWR22Rν1 and CWR - R1 and their progenitor tumour xenograft CRW22, they concluded that XMRV infections were caused by contamination during in vivo passaging in nude micon the XMRV - producing human prostate cancer cell lines CWR22Rν1 and CWR - R1 and their progenitor tumour xenograft CRW22, they concluded that XMRV infections were caused by contamination during in vivo passaging in nude mice.

Areas of focus include: understanding how tumour - reactive T cells and B cells promote patient survival in cancer; defining the effects of standard treatments on tumor immunity; and using genomic approaches to identify novel tumour mutations that can serve as target antigens for immunotherapy.