LA JOLLA — Glioblastoma multiforme is
a particularly deadly cancer.
Not exact matches
Mr. Molo, in rejecting the government's charge that his client's actions were illegal, said Mr. Silver's referrals of patients with asbestos claims to the law firm Weitz & Luxenberg was a means of getting «economic justice» for them, many of whom were blue - collar workers who had «unfairly and unjustly» contracted mesothelioma, a
particularly deadly form of
cancer, through work with asbestos.
A team at the University of Kansas School of Medicine has identified a potential target for treating breast
cancer, including a
particularly deadly form of the disease.
«It is
particularly good news for the large number of affected patients that if they are in good medical care and have survived breast
cancer, they do not need to be more worried about
deadly heart diseases than women at the same age without breast
cancer.»
an important step in gaining a better understanding of this difficult and
particularly deadly disease,» said lead author Dr. Agnieszka Witkiewicz, Associate Professor of Pathology and a member of the Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive
Cancer Center at UT Southwestern.
If successful, it will be the first noninvasive screening test for gastric
cancer: the second
deadliest cancer worldwide and one with a
particularly high prevalence among Asian populations.
For women with ovarian
cancer, a
particularly deadly form of gynecologic
cancer, even improvements in treatment outcomes have been elusive.
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.
Brain tumors are a
particularly deadly form of
cancer, and the leading cause of
cancer - related death in children.
In spite of the fact that nowadays there are much safer synthetic alternatives to asbestos, the mining of white asbestos continues as well as the exporting of
cancer causing material to the developing world,
particularly by Canada, which has been criticized The Lancet, a medical journal, for the claimed hypocrisy of Canada banning asbestos usage, but continuing to export the
deadly material.
Dogs and humans share a
particularly deadly form of brain
cancer: glioblastoma.