Sentences with phrase «only by cancer patients»

The center will incorporate diagnostic imaging technology with a separate entrance so that it can be used not only by cancer patients but also by other ProHealth patients who need imaging services.

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By the time some patients learn that they have cancer (sometimes years later), not only is treatment delayed but the opportunity to bring litigation has passed.

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.

Here's one example of how this information might be useful for doctors and patients: Irinotecan is a drug only indicated by the FDA for use in colon cancer.

«Similarly 71 drugs approved by the FDA from 2002 to 2014 for solid tumours have resulted in median gains in progression - free and overall survival of only 2.5 and 2.1 months, respectively,» he says adding, «Also, only 42 per cent met the American Society of Clinical Oncology Cancer Research Committee's criteria for meaningful results for patients.»

The Decision Counseling Program © developed by Dr. Myers and colleagues differs from previous decision aids in that a nurse educator uses the program not only to provide information about options, but also to identify and weigh the importance of things that matter to the patient (e.g., worry about treatment side effects, concern about developing aggressive cancer).

Although it is among the most highly metastatic of all cancers, multiple myeloma is driven to spread by only a subset of the myeloma cells within a patient's body, researchers at Dana - Farber Cancer Institute have found in a study presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Hematology (ASH).

«I would like to point out, however — concludes Alimonti — that our discovery does not imply that cancer patients must undergo a strict dietary regime, which might in fact hurt them: a reduction of fat in cancer cells can only be obtained by blocking the cancer cells metabolism through specific drugs.»

«The current options for maintenance therapy in the EU are bevacizumab, which can only be given once and improves progression - free survival by just a few months, and the PARP inhibitor olaparib, which is only approved in patients with a germline BRCA mutation (about 10 - 15 % of ovarian cancer patients).

The identification of patients with high - risk breast cancer is key to knowing whether a patient will require only the removal of the tumor by surgery or whether if she will need additional chemotherapy to make sure the removal of breast cancer cells.

By contrast, the neoantigen vaccine is custom - made for each patient using antigens produced by mutations unique to the patient's cancer and only present on cancer cells, thus bypassing the nature immune tolerance procesBy contrast, the neoantigen vaccine is custom - made for each patient using antigens produced by mutations unique to the patient's cancer and only present on cancer cells, thus bypassing the nature immune tolerance procesby mutations unique to the patient's cancer and only present on cancer cells, thus bypassing the nature immune tolerance process.

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.

This elite distinction, which is held by only top - tier cancer centers nationwide, recognizes innovative research and excellence in patient care.

The only previous trial of this approach, conducted by Dr. Gary Nabel and colleagues at the University of Michigan, involved five patients with metastatic melanoma, a lethal skin cancer.

The researchers, studying women with node - negative breast cancer — the small, early tumors sought by mammography — found that by adding E-cadherin to other biomarkers that they have studied they are able to distinguish those patients with a 90 percent long - term survival from those whose survival is only 44 percent.

A research team led by an award - winning genomicist at Western University has developed a new method for identifying mutations and prioritizing variants in breast and ovarian cancer genes, which will not only reduce the number of possible variants for doctors to investigate, but also increase the number of patients that are properly diagnosed.

In a clinical trial, lung cancer patients who used an app developed by an Israel - based company lived seven months longer than patients who only received standard care.

For patients with stage II or stage III colon cancer, the difference in long - term survival for leaner patients compared to those with a body mass index (BMI) of 35 or greater — which physicians refer to as «very obese» — was comparable to the difference between those who had surgery followed by chemotherapy and those who had only surgery.

A total of 27 trials involving 8000 prostate cancer patients showed that total androgen blockade improved the 5 - year survival rate by only 2 % and the 10 - year survival rate by only 0.7 %.

The second study, on pro-carcinogens, has been used by some marketers to claim that chlorophyll can prevent cancer, but for acne patients the study only shows that chlorophyll can prevent a very narrow subset of carcinogen exposure, itself a very narrow subset of total free radical exposure.

Legumes, except peanuts, are allowed to be eaten by cancer patients but only in moderation and only to stabilize the weight of the patient or to provide protein.

A terminal cancer patient, for example, may be cured over a 6 month period by consuming the proper nutrients, but may only have 3 weeks to live.