Sentences with phrase «successful treatments of cancer»

He has co-authored many books and articles on integrative medicine and has pioneered successful treatments of cancer, autism, Lyme disease and many other illnesses.

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Doing something like this does also comes with risks for overdiagnosis, even if the research is successful; a regular test for cancer risks causing many people to receive potentially dangerous treatment for cancers that wouldn't have seriously impacted their health in the long run, according to José Baselga, Physician - in - Chief and Chief Medical Officer of Memorial Sloan Kettering.

New startup Grail is in the midst of developing a blood test that can detect cancer before its symptoms manifest, which drastically improves the chances of successful treatment.

«It's very sad and tragic that someone so young has this disease of cancer and that the treatment she has been given has not been successful.

Sperm banking should be routinely available to all men and funded as part of their cancer treatment and there are very promising and increasingly successful developments in new options for women.

Approximately one year after successful treatment with cytotoxic chemotherapy and radiotherapy, patients with advanced Small Cell Lung Cancer (SCLC), which primarily affects heavy smokers, generally relapse with recurrence of tumours that are resistant to further chemotherapy.

But a substantial proportion of those in whom treatment is successful still go on to develop the disease, the third leading cause of cancer death in the world.

► In a news feature in this week's Science, Ken Garber described the surprisingly, frustratingly messy path of palbociclib, one of the most promising cancer treatments to come along in years, from its conception in 1995 through its recent, successful phase - II clinical trial.

Proliferation of such cells, which tend to resist chemotherapy and help tumors spread, are considered a major roadblock to successful cancer treatment.

«If successful, these new treatments could also be applicable to a variety of additional cancers in which both genes are overexpressed.»

Blocking PD - 1 with checkpoint - inhibiting drugs — and thereby restoring the cancer - killing zeal of T cells — has become one of the most successful new approaches to cancer treatment in nearly a decade.

The first long - term study of a pioneering endoscopic laser treatment for early vocal - cord cancer, developed at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and previously shown to provide optimal voice outcomes, finds that it is as successful as traditional approaches in curing patients» tumors while avoiding the damage to vocal quality caused by radiotherapy or by conventional laser or cold - instrument surgery.

«The exciting research results being presented today underscore how transplants are becoming an increasingly successful treatment option for more patients with blood cancer than ever before,» said Jeffrey Miller, MD, moderator of the press conference and Deputy Director of the Masonic Cancer Center and the Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute at the University of Minnesota in Minneacancer than ever before,» said Jeffrey Miller, MD, moderator of the press conference and Deputy Director of the Masonic Cancer Center and the Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute at the University of Minnesota in MinneaCancer Center and the Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.

To be considered as a candidate for immune treatment, cancer patients must first undergo a successful course of targeted chemotherapy.

«In the future, we'd like to be able to profile individual cancer genomes so that we can identify the treatment most likely to be successful for a woman or man diagnosed with breast cancer,» says Dr Nik - Zainal of the Sanger Institute.

The successful combination of these two therapies results in the growth of specialized vessels that deliver cancer - fighting immune cells to the tumor, potentially leading to more effective treatments and longer survival periods.

«If successful, I envisage it can be a good alternative treatment in the future, one which is low cost and yet effective for the treatment of cancers involving solid tumours, as it might minimise the side effects of drugs.»

While targeting T cells has proven to be a technically successful treatment protocol for most cancer immunotherapies, only a fraction of cancer patients respond to these interventions.

While effective in most cancer patients, this course of treatment has been less successful in kidney transplant patients because if the immune system is activated, it causes the patient's body to start rejecting their donor kidney.

November 15, 2006 Risk after colon cancer higher for very fat and very thin Even after successful treatment for colon cancer, the very obese are about one - third more likely to have their cancer recur and to die prematurely from cancer than those of normal weight, researchers from the University of Chicago and the University of Pittsburgh report in the November 15, 2006, issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Instcancer higher for very fat and very thin Even after successful treatment for colon cancer, the very obese are about one - third more likely to have their cancer recur and to die prematurely from cancer than those of normal weight, researchers from the University of Chicago and the University of Pittsburgh report in the November 15, 2006, issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Instcancer, the very obese are about one - third more likely to have their cancer recur and to die prematurely from cancer than those of normal weight, researchers from the University of Chicago and the University of Pittsburgh report in the November 15, 2006, issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Instcancer recur and to die prematurely from cancer than those of normal weight, researchers from the University of Chicago and the University of Pittsburgh report in the November 15, 2006, issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Instcancer than those of normal weight, researchers from the University of Chicago and the University of Pittsburgh report in the November 15, 2006, issue of the Journal of the National Cancer InstCancer Institute.

Building on the successful outcomes of their multi-year history, these leading cancer research organizations will inspire new collaborators; improve diagnosis of pancreatic cancer using big data; develop new treatments for pancreatic cancer; and support the next generation of pancreatic cancer investigators.

In the end, many oncologists believe that PDX mice are a powerful means to an end — achieving successful, individualized treatment plans for cancer patients based on the genetic makeup of their tumor — but not the end itself, as developing PDX mice for every cancer patient is simply not practical.

The earlier a cancer is detected, the greater the chances of successful treatment and a long survival time.

Although science and medicine have made tremendous strides in early detection and successful treatment, breast cancer and melanoma still claim tens of thousands of lives a year — usually the end result of metastasis.

Treating cancer early, before it spreads, increases the chances of successful treatment.

It aims to increase the number of successful new treatments for cancer by taking undeveloped anti-cancer agents from industry and putting them into clinical trials.

Les Hughes, global vice president of cancer research at AstraZeneca, said: «AstraZeneca is committed to the discovery and development of new, targeted anti-cancer therapies to improve the lives of cancer patients but if we are going to be successful in delivering new treatments for cancer patients, it will be important for charities, academics and industry to work collaboratively.

But successful demonstration of SLC6A14 as an effective drug target for treatment of selective subtypes of cancer would provide new hope even for patients with other types of cancers.

In addition to the fields of viral therapy and immunotherapy, researchers are working on methods of early detection, which is crucial to successful treatment of liver cancer, Fong said.

Although the use of intravenous high - dose vitamin C as a treatment for cancer has not been approved the FDA, there have been several successful scientifically documented cases.

Incorporating MFR into her treatment of breast cancer patients has led to the successful return to a full and active lifestyle for many women following their cancer diagnosis.

Dr. Uzzi Reiss, in his long, nutritonal, hormonal experience, supports successful treatment modality of both Breast and Prostate Cancer.

Also, hormone therapy treatments are used when advised by a doctor, even though successful research has been conducted in reducing * the possibilities of heart disease, cancer or blood clots forming.

Vitamin A is necessary for growth, immunity, steroid production, sperm production in males, prevention of spontaneous abortion in females, and proper prenatal development.45 Vitamin A appears to aid in the utilization of dietary protein, and, even though androgens are used as promoters of prostate cancer, vitamin A both boosts androgen production and powerfully inhibits prostate cancer.48 Vitamin A-rich foods like raw liver juice have been successfully used to treat cancer, 49 and concentrated doses of naturally occurring all - trans retinoic acid, the active hormone form of vitamin A, are currently used as a highly successful treatment for leukemia.50 Vitamin A appears to protect against and be depleted in inflammatory conditions.51 Vitamin A also protects against environmental toxins, and protects against free radical damage: cod liver oil, in fact, because of its vitamin A content, is the only source of essential fatty acids that can lower levels of harmful, free - radical lipid peroxides, while all other sources of essential fatty acids raise lipid peroxides.45

When I began writing the book, my husband had just finished a successful prostate cancer treatment, and three of my friends had beaten breast cancer.

Conventional treatments for mammary cancer in dogs are considered to be more successful than other types of canine cancer, however they're still only a little more than 50 % successful when used by themselves.

If successful, this technology can be used to assess for residual cancer during surgery to benefit patients by guiding accurate treatment recommendations and attempting to reduce the need for additional treatments or surgery, and thus advancing the standard of care for canine patients.

To the best of my knowledge there is not a very successful hemotherapeutic or radiation protocol for this cancer at this time but dogs treated with chemotherapeutic agents do live a little longer than dogs that do not receive this treatment.

Pfizer Animal Health and CHF already have a successful history of working together on numerous canine health research initiatives, including the Canine Comparative Oncology & Genomics Consortium housed at the National Cancer Institute, as well as Pfizer Animal Health's novel treatment for canine mast cell tumors.

Treatment: The plan for lymphoma varies depending on the type of cancer, but it is very successful.

These are still the standard mesothelioma treatment options regarding this kind of cancer but, as stated before, this cancer is very rare and, therefore, successful treatments are harder to determine.

The patient, David James, had been admitted to hospital in May 2012 aged around 68 because of a problem with a stoma he had had fitted in 2001 during successful treatment for cancer of the colon.

In 2003, Justice Pariente shared with the public her successful treatment for breast cancer, in hopes of promoting greater awareness of this disease that strikes one in eight American women.

A temporary flat extra example would be successful treatment of breast cancer.

The cost of cancer treatment is considerable and unpredictable, as it can recur even after a successful treatment.