Sentences with phrase «treat ovarian»

Doctors are already using Avastin off - label widely to treat ovarian cancer, he said, although it is not yet approved for this use.

The team has tested its triple threat nanoparticles, containing drugs typically used to treat ovarian cancer (such as doxorubicin, cisplatin and camptothecin), against lab - grown ovarian cancer cells.

With Hutch staff scientist Dr. John Lamb, Simon recently identified a compound that may improve on drugs that treat ovarian and other cancers.

They found that the defect is highly sensitive to an existing FDA - approved drug used to treat ovarian cancer — a discovery that challenges current practice for treatment of brain tumors and other cancers with the same genetic defect, said the scientists.

Though smaller in number, some patients with advanced disease and carrying a BRCA mutation may benefit from the same targeted therapy being used today in the clinic to successfully treat some ovarian cancer patients.»

Top honors for both the 17 - to 18 - year - old category and the grand prize went to Shree Bose, who discovered that an energy protein of the cell, AMP kinase, plays a role in developing resistance to a drug commonly used to treat ovarian cancer.

Olaparib was approved by the FDA in 2014 to treat ovarian cancers with BRCA mutations.

«By combining my laboratory's expertise in ovarian cancer biology and Dr. Xu's expertise in bioinformatics, we were able to uncover a potentially novel drug approach to treat ovarian cancer,» said co-senior author Analisa DiFeo, PhD, the Norma C. and Albert I. Geller Designated Professor of Ovarian Cancer Research and assistant professor in the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.

«Despite the intense therapeutic and surgical regimen typically used to treat ovarian cancer, outcomes remain poor,» said William Small Jr., MD, chair, Department of Radiation Oncology, LUHS.

Although it didn't prove effective against leukemia, a synthetic version of camptothecin is used to treat ovarian, lung and

The study reveals a mechanism that provides researchers with a promising target for treating ovarian and other metastatic cancers.

Although her current work is focused on identifying novel methods for treating ovarian cancer, this topic was far from Chefetz's mind while earning her bachelor's at Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa.

In addition to being a member of CRI's Clinical Leadership Committee, Dr. Coukos is currently the lead investigator of a CRI - funded clinical trial that is treating ovarian cancer patients with two immunotherapies — MEDI4736, an anti-PD-L1 checkpoint inhibitor, and motolimod, a TLR8 agonist.

They discovered that inhibitors of the protein EZH2 provided an effective strategy for treating ovarian cancers with elevated CARM1 expression.

It softens breast tissue, dissolves breast cysts, helps with shrinking fibroids and treats ovarian cysts.

Our medical negligence lawyers have helped a 20 - year - old student claim a six - figure settlement after delays in treating an ovarian cyst left her unable to conceive.

Not exact matches

Since metformin was approved for diabetes, it has started to be used off - label to treat conditions like pre-diabetes, gestational diabetes, and polycystic ovarian disease.

The drug is meant for women with advanced ovarian cancer who have already been treated with two or more chemotherapies.

Juno also has a few other compounds in early stages of development aimed at treating NHL, pediatric ALL, multiple myeloma, ovarian & breast cancer, AML, lung cancer, and more.

Endometriosis, Ovarian Cysts, Asthma, Allergies, Hormonal imbalances etc. are all frequently treated with a hormone augmentation therapy that fall under the blanket category of «Birth Control»

i recently was diagnosed and treated for both colon and ovarian cancer.

So when a woman has an abortion to safe her life, or takes synthetic female hormones to treat endometriosis, polycystic ovarian syndrome, or to prevent unwanted pregnancy, that's all sacred and god - given too?

At this late stage, ovarian cancer is difficult to treat and is often fatal.

Evidence shows additional goji berry benefits include treating female infertility in patients with premature ovarian failure and the inability to ovulate normally.

I was treated by an ayurvedic practitioner in NYC for ovarian cysts and have been a believer ever since.

«We treat those types of patients very simply, normally with clomiphene citrate, which is a pill that will normalize ovulation,» says Dr. Marrs, «If that doesn't work in certain cases of ovulatory dysfunction, women will take natural FSH, follicle stimulating hormone, and luteinizing hormone which are the two hormones in the pituitary gland that create ovulation within the ovarian follicle system.»

For example, a woman with PCOS being treated with Clomid at age 23 doesn't have the same live birth success rate as a 42 - year - old woman with low ovarian reserves.

By the time of diagnosis the majority of women with ovarian cancer already have extensive spread of the disease which makes it difficult to treat by surgery or chemotherapy.

«For this reason, we decided to combine vitamin C with a PARP inhibitor, a drug type known to cause cancer cell death by blocking the repair of DNA damage, and already approved for treating certain patients with ovarian cancer.»

«What we've discovered will help clinicians to better treat women with ovarian cancer,» says Dr. Ben Tsang, senior scientist at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and professor at the University of Ottawa.

«Pelvic RT after chemotherapy may be more beneficial in treating this form of ovarian cancer compared with other types,» Dr. Small said.

Ovarian cancer is typically treated with cisplatin, a platinum - based chemotherapy.

TRINOVA - 2 is evaluating pegylated liposomal doxorubicin in combination with either placebo or trebananib in previously treated patients with ovarian cancer while TRINOVA - 3, also known as ENGOT - Ov2 and Gynecologic Oncology Group — 3001, is studying the use of trebananib in front - line treatment adding it to carboplatin / paclitaxel.

The researchers treated 63 cancer cell lines (26 breast, 14 colorectal and 23 ovarian) with low - dose 5 - azacitidine (AZA), an FDA - approved drug for myelodysplastic syndrome, that reverses epigenetic changes by stripping off the methyl group that silences the gene.

«This is an exciting new targeted medication in treating recurrent ovarian cancer.

Their findings in the study «Phosphoglycerate mutase 1 regulates dNTP pool and promotes homologous recombination repair in cancer cells,» which has been published in The Journal of Cell Biology, suggest that this FDA - approved ovarian cancer medicine has the potential to treat a wider range of cancer types than currently indicated.

Dr. Tordjman and her colleagues studied the effect of radioactive iodine treatment on the ovarian reserve of women treated for differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) by measuring their blood levels of anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) and following the patients for up to one year after treatment.

In the Oncogene study, DrugPredict produced a prioritized list of 6,996 chemicals with potential to treat epithelial ovarian cancer.

A section of a tumor organoid grown from cells derived from a patient with high - grade serous ovarian cancer (left) and a mini-tumor treated with ReACp53, resulting in extensive cancer cell death.

«For decades, women have been treated with a combination of treatment options, resulting in poor prognosis for most women with advanced - stage ovarian cancer, but there are many survivors as well,» said Dr. Narod, senior scientist at Women's College Research Institute.

The team is also investigating the agent's efficacy in treating pancreatic cancer and ovarian cancer.

More than 80 percent of women with advanced stage high - grade serous ovarian cancer experience relapses even after repeated surgeries and multiple rounds of chemotherapy, and this effective new approach to treat the disease could be a major step forward in preventing cancer from returning.

Researchers at the Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine have found a promising new way to monitor and treat recurrence of ovarian cancer — a hard - to - detect disease that claims many lives.

In their research, scientists at Rutgers created animal models that closely resemble the cancerous tumors found in women with ovarian cancer by injecting tumor tissues obtained from gynecological cancer patients treated at the Cancer Institute into laboratory mice.

One resembles ovarian cancer and so could be treated similarly.

Surgeons gathered to focus on a quality improvement program to address a central issue in treating advanced ovarian cancer — how to optimize surgery to achieve complete removal of all visible tumor — also called optimal resection.

Recent studies have shown that rucaparib, a PARP inhibitor, effectively treats patients with platinum - sensitive, relapsed, high - grade ovarian cancer harboring a BRCA mutation.

The targeted therapy rucaparib, which has demonstrated robust clinical activity in ovarian cancer patients with a BRCA mutation, also showed promise in previously treated pancreatic cancer patients with the mutation, according to results from a phase II clinical study.

Three - quarters of women treated for ovarian cancer face relapse of their disease.

Next they treated the experimental tumor cells with MIR506 to determine if it would behave in the same way it had with ovarian and other cancers.