Sentences with phrase «treat lung cancer with»

A new class of inhibitors offers a novel way to treat lung cancer with minimal toxic side effects on normal cells, according to a laboratory study funded through philanthropic contributions to the Lung Cancer Moon Shot.

My favorite quote: Government - run health care is «akin to treating lung cancer with cough medicine on the advice of Phillip Morris.»

Not exact matches

They'll also jointly market Pfizer's drug Xalkori, which is approved in more than 75 countries for treating non-small cell lung cancer in patients with a certain genetic mutation.

«Our study suggests that epigenetic changes to cells treated with cigarette smoke sensitize airway cells to genetic mutations known to cause lung cancers,» says Stephen Baylin, M.D., the Virginia and D.K. Ludwig Professor for Cancer Research and professor of oncology at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center.

«Indeed, in a second tumor model of metastatic breast cancer, we demonstrated that mice treated with the EphA2 - targeting paclitaxel conjugate presented nearly no lung metastases, while a large numbers of lesions were observed in both untreated mice and in mice treated with just paclitaxel.»

Gemcitabine is used to treat patients with pancreatic, lung, breast and bladder cancers.

Urbanic said the overall findings of the study suggest that there are some patients with recurrent lung cancers who can be treated with another definitive course of radiation therapy and still have a chance at a cure.

«One of the toughest challenges of lung cancer is what to do for patients when the cancer comes back in an area that's been treated previously with radiation treatment,» said James J. Urbanic, M.D., lead author of the studies and a radiation oncologist at Wake Forest Baptist.

If hypofractionated radiation with curative intent can reduce the treatment time for lung cancer patients by half with no greater toxicity, and with equivalent — if not better — tumor control and survival outcomes, this research could result in a change in the paradigm of how a large subset of locally advanced NSCLC patients are treated.»

Patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer will always progress after chemotherapy, so most patients go on to be treated with immunotherapy, a type of therapy that uses the body's immune system to fight cancer.

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.

Among patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) fueled by ALK gene alterations who were being treated with crizotinib (Xalkori), a decrease in the number of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) harboring increased copies of the ALK gene over the first two months of treatment was associated with increased progression - free survival.

When William Pao was a medical oncology fellow at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) during the early 2000s, treating patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) was rote: Every patient received the same chemotherapy reCancer Center (MSKCC) during the early 2000s, treating patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) was rote: Every patient received the same chemotherapy recancer (NSCLC) was rote: Every patient received the same chemotherapy regimen.

In a letter published in the cancer journal Annals of Oncology, researchers led by Professor Jean - Philippe Spano, head of the medical oncology department at Pitie - Salpetriere Hospital AP - HP in Paris, France, report that while treating an HIV - infected lung cancer patient with the cancer drug nivolumab, they observed a «drastic and persistent decrease» in the reservoirs of cells in the body where the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is able to hide away from attack by anti-retroviral therapy.

Researchers treated ectopic pregnancies — where an embryo implants inside the Fallopian tube — by combining an existing treatment with a lung cancer therapy.

Prof Soria will say: «Eventually, almost all lung cancer patients with EGFR mutations will develop resistance to currently available therapies, including TKI, leaving doctors and patients without effective options to treat this deadly disease.

Women with ectopic pregnancies could be spared surgery if they are treated with a lung cancer drug, a study suggests.

«Lung cancer patients are usually treated with chemo, and they can do well, but you seldom see dramatic turnarounds,» Shaw says.

This week it emerged that the first human test of the controversial gene - editing technique CRISPR had taken place at West China Hospital in Chengdu, where oncologists used it to treat a man with an aggressive lung cancer.

The quest to improve survival of children with a high - risk brain tumor has led St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators to two drugs already used to treat adults with breast, pancreatic, lung and other cancers.

«When we treated lung cancer cells with the antifungal drug, we saw the antiviral protection from IFITM3 pretty much disappear,» explained Christopher Chin, co-first author, also from UMMS.

«Historically, when treating early lung cancer with radiotherapy, progression at the site of the primary tumor was the most common failure resulting in suffering and death,» said lead study author Robert Timmerman, MD, professor and vice chair of the department of radiation oncology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.

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.

«In this study, outcomes for HER2 - positive lung cancer patients treated with conventional therapies were similar to outcomes for HER2 - negative patients treated in the same way.

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

The mechanism is known as NMD (nonsense - mediated mRNA decay), and scientists found that exposing breast cancer cells to a molecule that inhibits NMD prior to treatment with doxorubicin, a drug used to treat leukemia, breast, bone, lung and other cancers, hastens cell death.

With the advancement of surgical and radiation therapy strategies for stage 1 non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), more patients are being treated, resulting in higher survival rates, according to a study published online today in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery.

The booklet has been developed and reviewed by medical experts who treat patients with lung cancer.

As a result, the mice had twice as many cancer cells zipping through their bloodstream and in their lungs compared with mice not treated with paclitaxel.

The purpose of this study is to compare the effectiveness of daratumumab in combination with atezolizumab against atezolizumab alone in patients who have advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) that has previously been treated.

Immunotherapy using checkpoint inhibitors has changed the way we treat several aggressive cancers such as melanoma, non-small cell lung and head & neck cancers, among others, with durable responses achieved in the metastatic setting.

Wang's team discovered that if human lung cancer cells in a lab dish in the presence of the receptor were treated with BCX, they migrated less than untreated ones.

Surgeons work closely with thoracic oncologists and other specialists to diagnose and treat cancers of the lung, esophagus, pleura and thymus.

«The authors report the effect on the «HIV reservoir» of injections of a monoclonal anti-PD1 antibody, nivolumab, given to a patient with long standing HIV to treat relapsed lung cancer.

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.

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.

Combining physical and biologic parameters to predict radiation - induced lung toxicity in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer treated with definitive radiation therapy.

Researchers have found that treating patients who have early stage non-small cell lung cancer with a type of radiotherapy called stereotactic body radiation therapy is associated with a small but increased risk of death from causes other than cancer.

Tens of thousands of Americans with tumors from certain types of lung cancer have mutations that might be treated by...

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(PHILADELPHIA)-- The most common type of lung cancer, non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), continues to be difficult to treat, with five year survival rates of about 36 percent for stage 3A tumors.

There is no typical story because when a person is diagnosed with lung cancer today, I don't know what I'm going to be treating them with in five years.

With survival rates that haven't changed significantly for decades, cancers of the brain, lung, oesophagus and pancreas are notoriously difficult to treat and remain diseases of substantial unmet need.

That's because, compared with» lung and other hard - to - treat cancers (such as ovarian), breast cancer tends to be caught at earlier, more treatable stages, thanks to screenings like mammograms (which is why it's so important to get one every year, starting at age 40).

Experts caution, however, that the benefits of quitting smoking — including a lower risk of heart attack and lung cancer — far outweigh the risk of developing diabetes, which can be treated with diet, exercise, and medication.

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My lil dog always ate grass to help her tummy as she had colitus... however the grazing turned to eating daily and on every walk every day... turns out, the poor thing was trying to treat herself as she was diagnosed with lung cancer... she knew but the vets took 7 months and 15 visits to tell me... as in anything, if it becomes excessive, take Fido to the vet...

Because of this, small cell lung cancer is treated with chemotherapy, with or without additional radiotherapy.

Felitti and colleagues1 first described ACEs and defined it as exposure to psychological, physical or sexual abuse, and household dysfunction including substance abuse (problem drinking / alcoholic and / or street drugs), mental illness, a mother treated violently and criminal behaviour in the household.1 Along with the initial ACE study, other studies have characterised ACEs as neglect, parental separation, loss of family members or friends, long - term financial adversity and witness to violence.2 3 From the original cohort of 9508 American adults, more than half of respondents (52 %) experienced at least one adverse childhood event.1 Since the original cohort, ACE exposures have been investigated globally revealing comparable prevalence to the original cohort.4 5 More recently in 2014, a survey of 4000 American children found that 60.8 % of children had at least one form of direct experience of violence, crime or abuse.6 The ACE study precipitated interest in the health conditions of adults maltreated as children as it revealed links to chronic diseases such as obesity, autoimmune diseases, heart, lung and liver diseases, and cancer in adulthood.1 Since then, further evidence has revealed relationships between ACEs and physical and mental health outcomes, such as increased risk of substance abuse, suicide and premature mortality.4 7