Sentences with phrase «other aggressive cancers»

These patents cover aspects of Celgene's Abraxane drug product, which is approved to treat metastatic breast cancer and other aggressive cancers.

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The other, a former White House aide to President Obama, tested positive for the BRCA2 gene mutation that has led to breast cancer in her family for generations — and is taking aggressive steps to avoid the same fate.

Dr. Marcus E. Martinez, who runs a family medical practice in Hoosick Falls, told the Times Union last year that he and his father, who opened the practice in 1956, have noted rare and aggressive forms of cancer in patients, as well as thyroid disease and other health problems.

Scientists have uncovered how tumor cells in aggressive uterine cancer can switch disguises and spread so quickly to other parts of the body.

«This research represents a big step forward in understanding why some tumors are more aggressive than others and being able to predict rationally which neoantigens will be the most effective at stimulating an immune response,» said Dr. Balachandran, a member of the David M. Rubenstein Center for Pancreatic Cancer Research at MSK, and corresponding author of the companion study in Nature.

The new name cites key features to guide pathologists in diagnosis, but omits the word «cancer,» indicating that it need not be treated with radioiodine or other aggressive approaches.

In most patients, the disease will stay inactive for years, while in others, it will suddenly erupt and turn into an aggressive and life threatening cancer.

While some prostate cancers are aggressive and lethal, others are clinically insignificant and will never lead to any harm or death if left undetected.

Triple - negative tumors are aggressive and more likely to metastasize than other breast cancers, and there is no effective treatment.

But those patients often have many other health problems that lead to death before even aggressive prostate cancer.

«Our findings suggest that this new drug combination would also help patients with this type of aggressive breast cancer as well as other cancers, such as lung, prostate and ovarian cancers,» Dr. Rassool says.

Even more troubling, her study found a link between high blood levels of lycopene's chemical cousin, beta - carotene, and an increased risk of aggressive prostate cancer — not enough to justify avoiding carrots and other food sources of beta - carotene but an ominous sign that not all food - derived compounds are necessarily benign when taken at higher doses.

In a new study published in The Journal of Urology ®, researchers determined that men who followed a Mediterranean diet, rich in fish, boiled potatoes, whole fruits, vegetables, legumes, and olive oil, and low consumption of juices had lower risk of aggressive prostate cancer (PC) than those who followed other dietary patterns like Prudent or Western diets.

The prognosis of myeloma patients with EMD behaves like other metastatic cancers and is extremely poor because its clinical course is very aggressive, Tse said.

Patients with high levels of miR - 194 in their blood could receive more aggressive treatment to reduce the chance of the cancer spreading to other parts of the body.»

The study evaluated 56 patients with ovarian clear cell adenocarcinoma (CCA), an aggressive form of ovarian cancer that is more likely to be resistant to chemotherapy and to have a poorer prognosis than other forms of this disease.

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.

Chemotherapy and other cancer treatments are supposed to get rid of the disease, but a new study finds they can elicit aggressive tumor growth instead, STAT reports today.

But other types — colon and bladder cancer and certain leukemias, for example — are usually more aggressive and harder to treat.

Hydrochlorothiazide increased the risk of basal cell carcinoma, which is the least serious type of skin cancer, as well as of squamous cell carcinoma, which is more aggressive and in some cases manages to spread to other parts of the body.

The team chose to compare breast tissue from healthy individuals with tumor samples taken from breast cancer patients — including both primary tumors that had not spread from the breast to other body sites, and highly aggressive, metastatic tumors.

In the other 77, the cancer either wouldn't have caused harm if left untreated or is so aggressive that treatment doesn't help.

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have discovered why breast cancer patients with dense breasts are more likely than others to develop aggressive tumors that spread.

But while it may not be as common as other skin cancers, MCC is highly aggressive and often deadly — and it's also becoming more common, according to new research published in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology and presented at the American Academy of Dermatology 2018 Annual Meeting in San Diego.

The researchers are now further investigating the possibility of using this approach on other cancers, including prostate cancer, where it could be used to distinguish more aggressive tumors from those that grow much more slowly, Bhatia says.

Previous in vitro studies conducted by researchers in other countries showed that this molecule was able to reduce the multiplication and increase the mortality of cells from melanoma, the most aggressive type of skin cancer, as well as breast cancer and neuroblastoma, a tumor that typically affects patients aged 15 or younger.

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.

Since most men with prostate cancer have indolent (non-aggressive) disease for which conservative therapy or surveillance would be appropriate treatment, the clinical challenge is not only how to identify those with prostate cancer, but also how to distinguish those who would benefit from surgical or other aggressive treatment from those who would not.

Compared to other types of breast cancer, triple negative breast cancers are often more aggressive and have fewer treatment options.

In other words, those likely cured through aggressive treatment were followed more closely than patients whose cancers were left untreated.»

Of those that had the high - risk signature, cancer spread to the lungs in 55 %, in spite of chemotherapy treatment, whereas only 10 % of the others showed cancer migration to the lungs — and even then, the lungs were not the principal or most aggressive site, the team reports 28 July in Nature.

Further, the relationship between Myc and TXNIP is not observed in other types of breast cancer, suggesting that it is a feature of only aggressive triple negative breast cancers and not other less aggressive breast cancer types.

In unrelated studies, other researchers have linked XMRV — again controversially — to an aggressive form of prostate cancer.

In the era of personalized cancer therapy, patients with TNBC remain at considerably higher risk of relapse and death than patients with other breast cancer subtypes, due to the aggressive nature of TNBC and the lack of newer targeted therapies for the disease.

Among patients with advanced cancer and other serious illnesses, aggressive treatments are often inconsistent with patients» wishes and are associated with worse quality of life compared to other treatments.

«Triple - negative breast cancers tend to be more aggressive compared to other types of breast cancers, and being able to predict response to therapy could greatly impact treatment decisions and patient outcomes,» says study author Shaveta Vinayak, MD, oncologist at UH Case Medical Center and Assistant Professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.

Immunotherapy using checkpoint inhibitors has changed the way we treat several aggressive cancers such as melanoma, non-small cell lung and head & neck cancers, among others, with durable responses achieved in the metastatic setting.

Dr. Corrie Painter first turned to Facebook to find others who shared her rare, aggressive cancer.

Differently from all other proteins in this class, survivin is selectively over-expressed in virtually every human cancer where it signals more aggressive disease and unfavorable outcome.

An aggressive form of cancer, desmoid fibromatosis often spreads to other parts of the body.

One of the SNPs is located on the X chromosome and the other SNP is located on chromosome 2p15 and is associated with a more aggressive form of prostate cancer.

Professor Ros Eeles from the Institute of Cancer Research and The Royal Marsden, who co-leads the prostate cancer ICGC study with Professor Colin Cooper from the ICR and Professors David Neal and Douglas Easton from The University of Cambridge, said: «One of the major challenges in treating prostate cancer is determining who needs aggressive treatment — some are slow growing and will never need treatment whilst others will develop quCancer Research and The Royal Marsden, who co-leads the prostate cancer ICGC study with Professor Colin Cooper from the ICR and Professors David Neal and Douglas Easton from The University of Cambridge, said: «One of the major challenges in treating prostate cancer is determining who needs aggressive treatment — some are slow growing and will never need treatment whilst others will develop qucancer ICGC study with Professor Colin Cooper from the ICR and Professors David Neal and Douglas Easton from The University of Cambridge, said: «One of the major challenges in treating prostate cancer is determining who needs aggressive treatment — some are slow growing and will never need treatment whilst others will develop qucancer is determining who needs aggressive treatment — some are slow growing and will never need treatment whilst others will develop quickly.

A New Twist in Breast Cancer Working with mice, scientists have shown that a protein made by a gene called TWIST may be the proverbial red flag that can accurately distinguish cells that drive aggressive, metastatic breast cancer from other breast cancer Cancer Working with mice, scientists have shown that a protein made by a gene called TWIST may be the proverbial red flag that can accurately distinguish cells that drive aggressive, metastatic breast cancer from other breast cancer cancer from other breast cancer cancer cells.

Overall, the top 15 cancers account for 81 percent of deaths, but some cancers are more aggressive and lethal than others.

Roswell Park Cancer Institute researchers have identified a gene that influences metastasis in prostate cancer, and may help clinicians to identify aggressive prostate tumors before they progress and spread to other oCancer Institute researchers have identified a gene that influences metastasis in prostate cancer, and may help clinicians to identify aggressive prostate tumors before they progress and spread to other ocancer, and may help clinicians to identify aggressive prostate tumors before they progress and spread to other organs.

Indeed trans - fats are known to lead to aggressive fat gain, heart disease diabetes and a multitude of inflammatory disorders, cancer and various other diseases.

It is also important to note that inflammatory breast cancer is much more aggressive than the other types of invasive breast cancers we have discussed, including both invasive ductal carcinoma and invasive lobular carcinoma.

Unlike other breast cancers that involve hormone receptors and HER2 receptors, this aggressive form of cancer relies on genetic therapeutics aimed at repairing celluar DNA and keeping epidermal growth factors from sending cellular signals.

Myself I'm not a doctor but my sister had breast cancer at 24 the first time received a radical mastectomy, chemo and radiation she got it the second time at 35 and had a mastectomy on the other breast (not radical) chemo and radiation as well both time they were very aggressive cancers.

It is an aggressive cancer that can rapidly grow and invade structures around the mouth, and can spread to other areas of the body.