Sentences with phrase «prevent early stages cancers»

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E. Albert Reece, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A., vice president for medical affairs at the University of Maryland and the John Z. and Akiko K. Bowers Distinguished Professor and dean of the University of Maryland School of Medicine, says, «Although we have made tremendous progress in preventing and detecting cervical cancer in its earliest stages, we may not have fully understood the incidence among older women and African - American women.

«Although there is a high risk of progression to decompensated cirrhosis and liver cancer among patients with advanced fibrosis, limiting access to people who have already progressed to late - stage disease as compared to treating earlier to prevent these liver - related complications seems counter-intuitive as a public health strategy.»

This shows promise for breast cancer patients as diagnosing and treating the breast cancer at early stages means there is a greater chance of preventing cancer cells spreading to other tissues, such as the lungs, brain and bone.

«We found that having elevated levels of IL - 15 in the gut could initiate all the early stages of celiac disease in those who were genetically susceptible, and that blocking IL - 15 could prevent the disease in our mouse model,» said Bana Jabri, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine and pathology, co-director of the Digestive Disease Research Core Center and a member of the Celiac Disease Center and Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Chicago.

Imagine a world where cancer could be easily prevented with a simple vaccination; where the earliest stages of cancer could be detected, treated and cured before they had a chance to spread; and where more advanced cancers had a reliably tested, genetically targeted treatment customized to each patient.

Assuming that the findings of the review reflected a causal relation between smoking cessation and risk of all cause mortality, we further investigated the data by constructing life tables for a hypothetical group of 100 patients aged 65 years with early stage lung cancer to estimate how many deaths would be prevented by smoking cessation within the non-small cell lung cancer and small cell lung cancer populations during five years.

Through basic and clinical biomedical research and training, NCI conducts and supports research that will lead to a future in which we can prevent cancer before it starts, identify cancers that do develop at the earliest stage, eliminate cancers through innovative treatment interventions, and biologically control those cancers that we can not eliminate so they become manageable, chronic diseases.

These are growths that haven't yet - which cells don't yet behave in this antisocial invasion fashion, but since it's benign to take it away we remove the polyps, these early stage growths and we are probably in many cases preventing cancer, but probably not in all cases.

Recognizing the factors that make a patient a candidate for hereditary cancer testing is critical to preventing the disease, delaying its onset, or diagnosing cancer at an earlier stage, while better outcomes may still be achievable.

It has been hypothesized that the dose of resistant starch was insufficient and / or it was delivered too close to cancer development (i.e., it might have missed its opportunity to prevent the early stages of cancer development).