Sentences with phrase «treat lung cancer shows»

«Molecule designed to treat lung cancer shows promising results in mice.»

In a groundbreaking development, results from a recent clinical trial to treat lung cancer show that a novel immunotherapy combination is surprisingly effective at controlling the disease's progression.

Results from a recent clinical trial to treat lung cancer show that a novel immunotherapy combination is surprisingly effective at controlling the disease's progression.

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In addition, the study showed that the 5 - year survival rate for selected older patients with advanced lung cancer who were treated with surgical therapy was 29.9 % for Stage III and 26.7 % for Stage IV.

For example, the drug crizotinib approved to treat ALK - positive lung cancer, showed a PFS of 10.9 months.

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.

Previous work at CU Cancer Center shows these drugs are especially useful against lung cancers that over-express both EGFR and HER2, implying that in addition to targeting HER2 - positive lung cancers with drugs approved to treat HER2 - positive breast cancers, there may be a role for HER2 inhibitors in HER2 cancers, perhaps both breast and lung.

Researchers and physicians have shown success treating EGFR lung cancer, for example with EGFR inhibitors gefitinib and erlotinib.

November 14, 2006 Anti-cancer drug shows early promise in pulmonary hypertension A drug used to treat kidney cancer can prevent the development of pulmonary hypertension (high blood pressure in the lungs) in rodents, report researchers from the University of Chicago at the 2006 annual meeting of the American Heart Association, November 12 to15, in Chicago.

DENVER — Elderly patients with stage III non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) showed improved overall survival (OS) when treated with chemoradiation (CRT) compared to definitive radiation (RT) alone.

It has shown great success in blood cancers and is now being adopted to treat mesothelioma and lung cancer.

[4] Cell studies have shown that vitamin C is toxic to prostate cancer, [5] non-small cell lung cancer, [6] and colon cancer cells, [7] while animal studies have shown that it may have some efficacy in the treatment of melanoma [8] and mesothelioma, the latter being notoriously difficult to treat.