Sentences with phrase «other forms of cancer therapy»

However, cancer treatment is a rapidly evolving field in small animal medicine, and combination treatments using other forms of cancer therapy may prove to be useful for managing this problem in the future.

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The finding, published in the current issue of the journal Nature Communications, could lead to new therapies for treating a common sub-type of GBM and possibly other forms of cancer.

The process, which located a genetic site for the most common form of prostate cancer, has potential for developing precision therapy for other cancers, such as breast, brain and colorectal, say researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Ccancer, has potential for developing precision therapy for other cancers, such as breast, brain and colorectal, say researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer CCancer Center.

«Dormant disseminated tumors can be ticking time bombs, but now that we know some of the triggers, it may be possible to develop therapies to ensure that disseminated cancer cells remain in a dormant state, or other therapies that eradicate these cells before they form full - blown metastases.»

Surgery, radiation and chemotherapy do prolong survival by several months, but targeted therapies, which have been effective with other forms of cancer, have not lengthened survival in patients fighting glioblastoma.

New research into CAR - T cell therapy has revealed crucial mechanisms that could help the immunotherapy technique, which is currently only effective against blood cancers, be adapted for the treatment of brain tumors and other forms of solid cancers.

Nutritional ketosis has received a lot of attention by cancer researchers in recent years, and many studies show it has great potential not just as a form of cancer prevention but also treatment — in combination with other treatments such as chemotherapy and radiation.16 Research is looking at whether non-toxic metabolic therapies and drug cocktails may be just as effective, with less toxicity.

It is important to understand that these therapies are costly and some forms of cancer are more easily treated than others.