Sentences with phrase «particularly aggressive disease»

It is a particularly aggressive disease and often beyond the point of effective treatment by the time symptoms appear.

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This was on my mind when word came out last week that Hitchens was suffering from esophageal cancer, a particularly aggressive and unforgiving form of the disease.

The team therefore analyzed the case history of 890 breast cancer patients and found that low Numb - 1 and -2 levels correlated with an increased risk of aggressive, metastatic disease, particularly for the luminal subtype of breast cancers, which tend to retain a normal, functional copy of the p53 gene.

Women with particularly aggressive forms of breast cancer could be identified by a test that predicts whether the disease is likely to spread to the brain.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Although men with prostate cancer usually respond to standard treatment with hormone therapy or chemotherapy, many will eventually experience progression or recurrence despite treatment — particularly those with high - risk or aggressive forms of the disease.

Many women are «triple negative» No one yet knows precisely why, but African - American women are roughly twice as likely as white women to have triple - negative breast cancer — so called because tumor cells in this particularly aggressive form of the disease test negative for estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR), and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER - 2).

On Thursday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned that this year's flu season may be a particularly bad one, thanks to an aggressive flu strain — and the flu shot may not offer enough protection.

If left untreated or if the strain of bacteria is particularly aggressive, this disease can be severe, chronic and potentially fatal.