Not exact matches
The authors anticipate that health care providers will use the early - detection biomarkers to test for their presence and levels in blood from pancreatic cancer patients and blood drawn from
individuals with a high risk of
developing pancreatic cancer, including those who have a first - degree relative with pancreatic cancer, are genetically
predisposed to the disease, or who had a sudden onset of diabetes after the age of 50.
«There are also genetic mutations that
predispose individuals to
develop colon cancer in early adulthood — and these
individuals have been found to
develop intestinal inflammation even before the appearance of their neoplastic disease,» he says.
The researchers are now examining changes in the brains of
individuals who go on to
develop psychotic disorders, as well as potential environmental and genetic risk factors that may
predispose individuals to poor cognition.
In the next decade, molecular research is going to further
develop along five lines: predictive medicine, that investigates the genetic conditions
predisposing to tumor risk; early molecular diagnosis; the evaluation of each patient's prognosis based on his / her genetic profile, in other words, the analysis of what kind of mutation affects the DNA of altered cells; the investigation of the
individual response to drugs, based on our genetic knowledge; «smart drugs», molecules able to hit the target in a selective way, killing only the deprogrammed cells.»
«They suggest that the lack of diversity among chromosomal markers is a genetic weakness that
predisposes individuals to
developing many common cancers.»
«But the presence of two hits [two such variations] puts an
individual into a
predisposed state for
developing a severe phenotype.
In rare cases a tumor called fibrosarcoma may
develop at the injection site, however, this has been found to
develop in only specific
individuals who are genetically
predisposed to form these tumors secondary to any type of infection or inflammation.