Sentences with phrase «treat brain cancer patients»

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Researchers at Houston Methodist used computer modeling to find an existing investigational drug compound for leukemia patients to treat triple negative breast cancer once it spreads to the brain.

Because there was only one other published case report about a child with M. velutinosus — a 1 - year - old with brain cancer who had undergone a bone marrow transplant — Kumar notes that he and colleagues were at a loss as to how best to treat their patient.

Dr. Max Schwarz, an oncologist and clinical professor at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, treated some brain - cancer patients with the experimental injectable form of Temodar and others with the capsule formulation.

NEW YORK — In 30 years as an oncologist, Dr. Howard Fine estimates he has treated some 20,000 patients with glioblastomas, the most deadly form of brain cancer, «and almost all of them are dead.»

In a significant breakthrough, the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) has identified a drug, propentofylline or PPF, that could help treat patients with deadly brain cancer.

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.

Tamoxifen, a drug currently used to treat breast cancer, also kills a fungus that causes a deadly brain infection in immunocompromised patients.

In the case of breast cancer driven by overexpression of the HER2 gene, up to 50 percent of patients treated with targeted therapies eventually develop brain metastases, which are inevitably fatal.

The activation of this signaling pathway progressively increased in different types of gliomas, with the highest activity seen in patients with glioblastoma, a particularly difficult - to - treat form of brain cancer that represents approximately 15 percent of all brain tumors.

Weill Cornell is the birthplace of many medical advances — including the development of the Pap test for cervical cancer, the synthesis of penicillin, the first successful embryo - biopsy pregnancy and birth in the U.S., the first clinical trial of gene therapy for Parkinson's disease, and most recently, the world's first successful use of deep brain stimulation to treat a minimally conscious brain - injured patient.

Novel strategies that are effective in treating brain metastases in patients with lung cancer are needed.

Long - term survival in patients with non-small cell lung cancer and synchronous brain metastasis treated with whole - brain radiotherapy and thoracic chemoradiation.

Bottom Line: Young mice that received molecularly targeted therapies used to treat brain cancer in human patients sustained cognitive and behavioral deficits, but the deficits were largely reversible through environmental stimulation and physical exercise.

For patients with metastatic breast cancer, radiation therapy can be used to treat areas of distant spread (e.g. bone or brain).

UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center researchers and surgeons are among the first in the nation to treat patients with recurrent brain cancer by directly injecting an investigational viral vector into their Cancer Center researchers and surgeons are among the first in the nation to treat patients with recurrent brain cancer by directly injecting an investigational viral vector into their cancer by directly injecting an investigational viral vector into their tumor.

At the Animal Cancer and Imaging Center, we have treated a large number of patients with brain tumors with radiation therapy.

Invoking RICO is somewhat akin to treating a cancer patient with a 45 caliber hollow point to the brain.