Sentences with phrase «only after their cancers»

In some cases researchers looked at blood levels of the vitamin only after a cancer had been diagnosed, instead of measuring the levels before and after.

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He didn't disclose his 2004 cancer surgery until after it occurred, and then only in an employee e-mail that was strategically released to news outlets.

VICTORIA — A plan to cut chemotherapy services for cancer patients in Nanaimo that was reversed only after public outcry shows B.C. Liberal cuts are leading to bad policy decisions that will hurt patients, say New Democrats.

Her husband had died of cancer at 38, after only three years of marriage.

did arise after the cancer diagnosis, but only after a few other minor issues occurred.

Like the way «god» gave the world «salvation» only tens of thousand of years LATE, we are to believe that «god» also gave us «medicine,» but only after we had suffered for TENS OF THOUSANDS of years AND only after we figured everything out ON OUR OWN??? That is one sadistic «god» to put us through all that deception... making us merely think it was solely by our own efforts that we could even... oh say, IDENTIFY things like heart disease and cancer and have even a chance to combat them.

A year after Bonamego was challenged to not only manage a football team but also manage cancer, now we find out if he can manage expectations.

Ok, I take issue with number 1... as someone who was only able to nurse on one side after treatments for breast cancer, I can definitely say in my case nursing has changed my breast and made it more saggy.

my mother passed away dec. 8, 2008 from pancreatic cancer... shortly after giving birth to wayana i moved back to be with my mother & nurse her through her next birth... 2008 - no doubt a year of infinity for me - it is all birth, death, rebirth, transitions & allowances... i get it & i owe it all to the vbac - nothing else in this experience could give me the knowledge, strength or grace than having this experience... natural birth is the only experience a female can have that can make her a woman... natural birth of anything!

Instead, it forms in sheets and nests in the lymphatic system of the skin, appearing only after it clogs the lymph system with cancer, causing the skin to swell and turn red as if in anger.

She died on Sunday of colon cancer at her home in Manhattan, only eight months after starting the post.

Taub also reiterated his motivation for referring patients to Silver was born out of a desire to convince Weitz & Luxenberg to begin donating to cancer research — specifically his mesothelioma research center — and that it was only after his referrals came that he was advised by a mutual acquaintance that he write Silver about state funding.

The New York Democrat said only that he and McCain spoke four or five times daily after the Republican returned to the Hill following a diagnosis of advanced brain cancer.

Clark was elected, but died of brain cancer in 1999 after only two years in office.

But Blaser told New Scientist: «More than 90 per cent of people with H. pylori never get ulcers or stomach cancer and anyway these diseases only occur after reproductive age, so they do not effect natural selection,»

Previous trials of retinoids against breast cancer have been conducted only after anti-estrogen treatments, at which point, «we were already getting expansion of cancer stem cells — treating with a retinoid after that was already too late,» Fettig says.

Only 4 percent of those who have pancreatic cancer survive five or more years after diagnosis.

Researchers at Dana - Farber / Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center report promising outcomes from a clinical trial with patients with a rare form of bone marrow failure who received a hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) after pre-treatment with immunosuppressive drugs only.

Namouni says the immuno - oncology field exploded after BMS showed that the immune - activating approach not only worked, but worked on notoriously stubborn cancers.

«Prostate cancers only kill men after they have spread or «metastasised» from the prostate,» says project leader Dr Luke Selth, Senior Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide's Dame Roma Mitchell Cancer Research Laboratories and a member of the Freemasons Foundation Centre for Men's Health.

Men whose blood levels of DNA had decreased at eight weeks after treatment survived an average of 17 months, compared with only 10.1 months for men whose cancer DNA levels remained high.

Diamond is also quick to point out that while the current study shows that COXEN could have been used to predict the most useful drug in many of these cases of advanced ovarian cancer, the actual use of the model will be possible only after validation with a prospective clinical trial.

The authors stressed that the long - term reduction in aggressive disease was observed only in men after more than a year of testosterone use, and the risk of prostate cancer did not differ between gels and other types of preparations.

Only cancers diagnosed at least a year after the start of a study were included.

The study experienced very rapid enrollment and at the preplanned independent data and safety monitoring review panel, the study was stopped early only 10 months after the study commenced because it met the primary endpoint of improving progression - free survival (time to cancer relapse).

Dr Lu concluded: «Only a small proportion of patients committed suicide or attempted suicide immediately after being diagnosed with cancer.

The team reports that Sema3D was abundant in the main tumor tissue of only three of 13 (23 percent) patients who died after minimal cancer spread.

After five years of fieldwork, laboratory experiments, and analysis, they reported in February 2011 that of 99 Laron syndrome cases, only one case of cancer existed on record, and that patient had survived.

Their findings reveal urgently needed new targets to treat pancreatic cancer, which strikes nearly 50,000 people in the U.S. each year and has only a 5 percent survival rate five years after diagnosis.

Cold Spring Harbor and Bethpage, N.Y. — Pancreatic cancer is one of the most deadly forms of cancer, with only 6 percent of patients surviving five years after diagnosis.

After stratifying the participants by location, Ma found that an increased risk of breast cancer was only found among female night shift workers in North America and Europe.

«Ovarian cancer is a very complicated disease and survival rates are low, with only 46 % of women living beyond five years after diagnosis.

After seven weeks of hypnotic relaxation therapy, a 69 - year - old man who had uncontrolled hot flashes following prostate cancer surgery showed a drastic decrease not only in hot flashes but also an impressive improvement in sleep quality, according to the study.

• After 12 years, the incidence of deaths from prostate cancer was 5.4 percent for patients who underwent radiation therapy plus hormone treatment, compared with 13.4 percent for those who had only radiation therapy.

Many of these efforts are focused on ovarian cancer, which is particularly deadly, with only 47 % of those with the disease alive five years after diagnosis.

When Dolly died with arthritis and lung cancer after living only half of her expected lifespan, it seemed to confirm the former.

Perhaps the only thing more devastating than being diagnosed with cancer is to find out after a period of remission that the cancer has become drug - resistant and progressed to an incurable state.

Researchers found that only 55 percent of colorectal cancer patients who were employed at the time of diagnosis retained their jobs after treatment.

Currently, immunotherapy is approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat kidney cancer patients only after they've tried more traditional therapies, such as targeted therapies killing the cancer's blood supply.

The women who had only had normal smear tests in their 50s showed no measurable lower cancer risk with new tests after age 60.

Both types of bile duct cancer are rare - in Europe and the U.S. only one in 100 000 people is affected - but they comprise the second most common malignancy of the liver after primary liver cell cancer.

The University of Melbourne Bertalli Chair in Cancer Medicine, Professor Sean Grimmond, said clinicians had limited time to decide on treatment, as the average patient survives only three to six months after diagnosis.

Only 44 percent of breast cancer patients with a high microvessel count, low nm23 and low E-cadherin levels are alive and disease free 14 years after surgery.

More than 90 percent of patients with either high nm23, a protein that prevents the cancer from spreading, or low angiogenesis, minimal growth of new blood vessels to supply the budding tumor, were alive an average of 14 years after treatment, compared to only 70 percent of those with low nm23 or high vessel density.

The technique could also be applied after chemotherapy, the authors suggest, in cases where the drugs had eliminated most the smaller cancer, leaving only a few larger tumors behind.

In a survey of more than 1,300 patients with stage 3 colorectal cancer, researchers found that only 55 % who were employed at the time of diagnosis retained their jobs after treatment.

After that discovery, Vogelstein's research team demonstrated that mutations in TP53 are implicated not only in colon cancer, but are also one of the most common genetic mutations found in all kinds of cancer.

Only half of Americans know that obesity increases the risk of several cancers and that a healthy weight is the second most important way — after not smoking — to reduce cancer risk, the researchers said.

Experts caution that you can only do so much and that staying healthy after breast cancer may not always be in your control.

The year 2005 changed her life when she was diagnosed with a deadly cancer just months after her first and only child...