Sentences with phrase «stage cancer finds»

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(She notes since introducing the mammogram, there has been a five-fold increase in Stage Zero breast cancer, a condition in which abnormal cells are found — but are not actively spreading — in the breast.)

A veteran of digital imaging technology, in 1999 he founded Quantitative Imaging Corp. (QImaging), a manufacturer of digital cameras for scientific and industrial uses — the kind, for example, that can detect microscopic, early - stage cancer cells.

I think in 10 years, we'll have cancer tests such that you take them once or twice a year, find out you have early - stage cancer, take care of it early, and move on.

To make it worst, my ex spouse found out he was dying from stage 4 cancer, so I was flying between Atlanta and Austin to care for him and offered to more him here to cafe for him.

«Screening for cervical, colorectal and breast cancers also helps find these diseases at an early, often highly treatable stage.

«Our findings provide a rationale to pursue the new use of these «old» antidepressant drugs to benefit late - stage prostate cancer patients with signs and symptoms of metastasis,» said Wu, an assistant professor of pharmacy at WSU Spokane.

Co-author Subrata Sen, Ph.D., also a professor of Molecular Translational Pathology, notes, «These findings are a significant advance considering that there's nothing else available now to detect early stage pancreatic cancer that has gone through blinded validations in multiple patient cohorts.»

The group found the two cancers act similarly in the joining stages of tumor formation.

The team found that blood levels of THBS2, combined with levels of a known later - stage biomarker called CA19 - 9, was reliable at detecting the presence of pancreatic cancer in patients.

In examining the STS - CMS linked data, researchers found that the median survival following lung cancer surgery for pathologic Stage I (early stage) was 6.7 years, almost 2 years longer than the benchmark 5 - year survival Stage I (early stage) was 6.7 years, almost 2 years longer than the benchmark 5 - year survival stage) was 6.7 years, almost 2 years longer than the benchmark 5 - year survival rate.

The prevailing theory of cancer progression — that it's driven by the accumulation of genetic mutations that increase tumorigenic «fitness» — holds true for the early stages of cancer progression, but metastases seem to find new ways to increase their fitness, McDonald said.

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Buechler and Hummon are using this information to find a way to identify Stage II cancer patients who are more likely to develop metastasis.

Scientific American spoke with geneticist and oncologist Amanda Paulovich, director of the Fred Hutchinson's Early Detection Initiative, about the work she and her team are doing to find biomarkers that can identify cancer in its most formative stages.

The Early Detection Initiative is an organizational structure within Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center to acknowledge and support the many faculty who for years have devoted their research to the discovery of the most effective ways to find and treat cancer at its earliest sCancer Research Center to acknowledge and support the many faculty who for years have devoted their research to the discovery of the most effective ways to find and treat cancer at its earliest scancer at its earliest stages.

The finding may provide insight into why African - Americans are more likely to die of colon cancer than Caucasians with the same stage of disease.

They found that after the extension of the upper age limit, the incidence of early stage breast cancer (stages 0, I and II) increased significantly from 260 cases per 100,000 women in 1995 to up to 382 cases per 100,000 women in 2011.

Instead, researchers told the European Breast Cancer Conference that their findings suggest that extending screening programs to older women results in a large proportion of women being over-treated, and at risk from the harmful effects of such treatment, because these women were more likely to die from other causes than from any tumors detected in the early stages of growth.

Key Findings Researchers found a 1 % increase in stage I diagnoses for four of the five cancers detectable by screening: breast (from 47.8 % to 48.9 %) and cervical cancer (47.3 % vs. 48.8 %, although this difference was not statistically significant) in women, and lung (from 16.6 % to 17.7 %) and colorectal cancer (22.8 % vs. 23.7 %) in men and women.

Moffitt Cancer Center researchers have found that a protein called TBK1 plays an important role in the process of cell division, especially at a stage called mitosis.

The report found that in California overall, late - stage diagnoses for cervical, prostate and oropharyngeal cancers significantly increased, but significantly decreased for breast cancer.

Investigators found that NPTX2 was expressed in all stages of kidney cancer, especially metastasis, which suggests it plays an important role in tumor development and progression.

The findings provide the highest level of evidence supporting expert - derived clinical practice guidelines which have recommended Oncotype DX in patients with early stage ER - positive breast cancer.

«The compelling results seen in this global study provide unequivocal evidence supporting the clinical utility of Oncotype DX to risk - stratify patients with early stage breast cancer, and indicate that the findings are generalizable to everyday clinical practice,» said lead author Joseph A. Sparano, MD, vice-chairman of medical oncology at Montefiore Einstein Center for Cancer Care, and professor of medicine and of obstetrics, gynecology, women's health at Albert Einstein College of Medcancer, and indicate that the findings are generalizable to everyday clinical practice,» said lead author Joseph A. Sparano, MD, vice-chairman of medical oncology at Montefiore Einstein Center for Cancer Care, and professor of medicine and of obstetrics, gynecology, women's health at Albert Einstein College of MedCancer Care, and professor of medicine and of obstetrics, gynecology, women's health at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

«These findings will give women with early stage breast cancer greater certainty that anti-estrogen therapy will decrease their risk of recurrence and increase their chance for survival whereas chemotherapy will not,» said breast cancer survivor Mary Lou Smith, JD, MBA, who helped design the study as a leader in the ECOG - ACRIN Cancer Research Advocates Commcancer greater certainty that anti-estrogen therapy will decrease their risk of recurrence and increase their chance for survival whereas chemotherapy will not,» said breast cancer survivor Mary Lou Smith, JD, MBA, who helped design the study as a leader in the ECOG - ACRIN Cancer Research Advocates Commcancer survivor Mary Lou Smith, JD, MBA, who helped design the study as a leader in the ECOG - ACRIN Cancer Research Advocates CommCancer Research Advocates Committee.

Researchers from BUSM and the University of Cyprus compared the markers on the surface of the cancer cells to gene expression profile of breast tumors deposited by researchers in international public databases and found that a molecule named IL13RA2 (IL13R alpha2) was abundant in metastatic or late - stage BLBC.

However, it was unclear at this stage in their research if this was a species - specific finding limited to animal tumor models or if this was a biologic phenomenon that may also be present in cancer patients.

Efforts aimed at finding better drug regimens would therefore greatly benefit from a mouse model with an intrinsic marker that can indicate different stages of pancreatic tumor formation leading to cancer and reflect the effects exerted by novel drug candidates.

«For example, we found that highly aggressive ovarian cancer cells are glutamine - dependent, and in our laboratory studies, we showed that depriving such cells of external sources of glutamine — as some experimental drugs do — was an effective way to kill late - stage cells.

In the 1980s, both US - based and international randomized clinical studies found that BCT and mastectomy offered women with early stage breast cancer equal survival benefit.

Researchers at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center found that while FDG PET / CT is valuable for systemic staging of stage III ductal breast cancer, it adds little to the systemic staging oCancer Center found that while FDG PET / CT is valuable for systemic staging of stage III ductal breast cancer, it adds little to the systemic staging ocancer, it adds little to the systemic staging of ILC.

«The good news is that this finding predicts that patients missing either gene should be sensitive to new therapies targeting focal adhesion enzymes, which are currently being tested in early - stage clinical trials,» says Shaw, who is also a member of the Moores Cancer Center and an adjunct professor at the University of California, San Diego.

«The findings suggest that policies such as the Affordable Care Act that increase the number of people in America with health coverage will result in fewer late - stage cancer diagnoses and save lives.»

«We found that CSM is statistically significantly lower for Asian Americans than for non-Hispanic whites overall, despite similarities in odds of receiving definitive therapy, and even after adjusting for socio - demographic factors, cancer stage and treatment,» said Trinh.

Maggie Blanks, Pancreatic Cancer Research Fund's CEO, said: «It's because of these bleak facts that our funding strategy focuses on finding and developing alternative, effective treatments for patients as well as finding a way to diagnose pancreatic cancer at an early Cancer Research Fund's CEO, said: «It's because of these bleak facts that our funding strategy focuses on finding and developing alternative, effective treatments for patients as well as finding a way to diagnose pancreatic cancer at an early cancer at an early stage.

Breast cancer cells that spread to other parts of the body break off and leave the primary tumour at late stages of disease development, scientists from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and their collaborators have found.

The findings, which suggest women may live four times longer with surgical treatment, were especially striking among older patients; researchers found that nearly half of women over 75 with stage III / IV cancer do not have surgery and roughly 25 percent receive no treatment at all.

Ovarian cancer is particularly hard to spot at an early stage so it's vital that we find ways to diagnose the cancer sooner.»

A new study finds that more than half of women with early stage breast cancer considered an aggressive type of surgery to remove both breasts.

The authors found that most lung cancer patients (regardless of stage) want physical activity advice directly from a physician at a cancer center before cancer treatment and exercise guidance may increase compliance with a dedicated program.

Deaths are highest among women who are not screened regularly and have their cancers found at later stage.

«We were surprised to find that nearly two - thirds of patients with stage T4a larynx cancer are not being treated with a total laryngectomy,» Grover said.

It is commonly thought that bladder cancers that develop after pelvic radiation tend to be aggressive, with high grades and stages, but this study found that the types, grades, and stages of bladder cancer that developed were similar in patients treated with and without radiation therapy.

The findings may help explain why women with bladder cancer are often diagnosed at a later stage in the disease and have worse mortality than men.

CellSearch is used primarily to check the progress of cancer treatment, whereas U.C.L.A.'s imaging technology could find cancerous cells at an earlier stage, before they can form a new tumor.

«The luminal progenitors we have found to possess this feature are thus now being brought into the spotlight as a likely stage where breast cancer may «take off.»»

When the researchers excluded permed samples, focusing on pubic hair instead, they found the same diffuse ring on the scatter patterns from all 23 women with various stages of breast cancer.

«We found tumor regression in almost half of these early stage lung cancer patients.

A considerably superior survival, both specific to breast cancer and from any cause of death, was found for BCT in the early stage T1 - 2N0 - 1M0 cancers in both time cohorts,» says Prof Siesling.

Drs. Crapo and Regan hope the findings will encourage long - term smokers to get lung CT screenings to detect early stages of lung cancer and COPD.