Sentences with phrase «soon after a cancer»

The findings emphasize the value of implementing palliative medicine soon after a cancer diagnosis rather than waiting until later in the disease's progression.

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WHat about sinless babies who are born with bone cancer and die soon after with a painful, agonizing death.

Soon after learning she was pregnant with twins, doctors informed her that a form of cervical cancer had returned and it was aggressive.

Lacewell is returning to the administration after a stint as the executive director of Cancer Breakthroughs 2020 at the California - based Chan Soon - Shiong NantHealth Foundation.

Mr. Cuomo said he will use an executive order to revive the Antonio G. Olivieri controlled substances therapeutic research program, which was established by law in 1980 and discontinued soon after, and allow up to 20 hospitals to dispense marijuana to approved patients suffering from cancer and other serious illnesses.

Lifelong resident Michael Hickey lost his father to kidney cancer in 2013 and soon after that a family friend died from the same disease.

Soon after she became deputy news editor (and later, news editor) for the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, a scientific journal published by Oxford University Press.

* Isolation of the related cancer predisposition gene BRCA2 followed soon after.

The findings inject hard facts into a debate that has long divided the medical community, with many radiation oncologists preferring adjuvant therapy — radiation given soon after prostate removal to kill off any remaining cancer cells — and many urologists preferring salvage therapy — radiation given later, when prostate - specific antigen tests suggest it's needed.

Soon after lung cancer cells (in green) spread into the brain, extracellular matrix molecules (in red) can shield them from the hostile surroundings.

Soon after she arrived, she ran an experiment on six different thyroid cancer lines, but her results came back impossibly clean: Three lines gave one identical result, and the other three gave another identical result.

After years of speculation about the promise of cancer vaccines as a way to use the immune system against tumors, the United States will soon see its first cancer vaccine hit the market.

In one of the new papers, Zitvogel's group examined data for 249 lung, kidney, and bladder cancer patients, 69 of whom took antibiotics for routine reasons such as dental work or a urinary tract infection before or soon after starting a PD - 1 drug.

These efforts are now turning up evidence that a sizable subset of childhood cancers are rooted in inherited genes, or mutations so soon after conception that they pervade every cell.

His affected kidney was surgically removed soon after the tumor was detected, but the cancer had already spread beyond the kidney.

WESTMINSTER, CO (October 10, 2012)-- Researchers may soon be able to add yet another item to the list of exercise's well - documented health benefits: A preliminary study suggests that when cancer survivors exercise for several weeks after they finish chemotherapy, their immune systems remodel themselves to become more effective, potentially fending off future incidences of cancer.

In 2005, the identification of an activating mutation in JAK2 (the V617F mutation) as a STAT5 - activating and disease - causing genetic alteration in a significant proportion of patients with myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs) has emphasized the oncogenic role of the JAK tyrosine kinases in hematologic malignancies.2 — 5 JAK2 is a member of the Janus tyrosine kinase family comprising three other mammalian non-receptor tyrosine kinases (JAK1, JAK3 and TYK2) that associate with cytokine receptors lacking intrinsic kinase activity to mediate cytokine - induced signal transduction and activation of STAT transcription factors.6 All JAKs share a similar protein structure and contain a tyrosine kinase domain at the C - terminus flanked by a catalytically inactive pseudokinase domain with kinase - regulatory activity, by an atypical SH2 domain and by a FERM domain that mediates association to the membrane - proximal region of the cytokine receptors.7, 8 Soon after the discovery of JAK2 V617F, we and others described that activating JAK1 mutations are relatively common in adult patients with T - cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and participate in ALL development allowing for constitutive activation of STAT5.9 — 11 Several STAT5 - activating JAK1 mutations were also reported in AML and breast cancer patients.10

I was diagnosed at age 46 with stage 3 breast cancer, and soon after had a mastectomy.

Historically, men who are diagnosed with prostate cancer have been nearly twice as likely to kill themselves and more likely to die of heart - related causes soon after their diagnosis compared to men in the general population, a study has found.

Soon after her diagnosis, the actress elected to have a double mastectomy to remove the cancerous tissue in one breast and as a preventive measure for her other breast, which was cancer - free.

Soon after diagnosis, when you're just starting to navigate the complicated world of cancer, alternative therapies start to cross into your space.

Soon after her husband's sudden death from a heart attack two years ago, Jill's daughter Rachel was diagnosed with ovarian cancer at the very young age of 21.

She says that she was inspired to write a book after her youngest sister died of breast cancer at the age of 39 leaving behind two little boys, and she thought if «I was going to write a book, I'd better do it soon because life is short.»

Soon after first being introduced, I saw photographer Charlee Brodsky's five - year study of Stephanie Byram, a breast cancer survivor.

So Sher and Joe decided to go for it and soon their Gaithersburg, Maryland home was inhabited by a 10 - pack of homeless senior pets (ten animals became their limit, a number Sher soon surpassed after Joe passed way in 2008 from lung cancer).

Benign mesothelioma often occurs much sooner after asbestos exposure than malignant mesothelioma and can be a warning sign that you and your doctor need to be on the lookout for the cancer.

The best chance of getting a good underwriting outcome will occur when lung cancer was diagnosed at an early stage, like In Situ or Stage I. (Note, it is probable you will receive an adverse rating if you apply too soon after completing cancer treatment.

You will likely be able to get life insurance after two years of stage zero breast cancer — possibly sooner.

Soon, after the 2011 Cricket World Cup, Yuvraj was diagnosed with seminoma, a type of malignant cancer.

Accordingly, the present study used latent difference score modeling with data from a large population - based sample of colorectal cancer patients to: 1) describe the trajectory of post-traumatic growth for colorectal cancer patients from soon after diagnosis to five years subsequently 2) assess the heterogeneity of a post-traumatic growth response to cancer over time and 3) describe the simultaneous and longitudinal relationships between post-traumatic growth and psychological distress after colorectal cancer.

Just three blocks from the sand, the three - story home is a project Erika and I embarked on a couple of summers ago, soon after learning that she had breast cancer.