Sentences with phrase «treated cancer»

In a first for gene therapy, researchers have successfully treated cancer patients by genetically modifying their immune cells to attack tumors.

To see if this same result held true in higher organisms, Gerton's team treated cancer cells from Li's mice with four different DNA damaging drugs.

This method, sometimes called «liquid biopsy,» can provide guidance for treatment decisions, monitoring of cancer therapy, and organism - wide screening for the presence of nascent metastatic tumors in drug - treated cancer patients.

We treated his Cancer with a lifestyle change and no harmful Chemo.

Founded in 2011, Innovent has built a portfolio of 16 potential products for treating cancer, autoimmune disorders and other diseases, and seven of those are in clinical development.

• TAE Life Sciences, a Foothill Ranch, Calif. - based developer of treatments for difficult to treat cancers, raised $ 40 million in Series A funding.

He cites the progress the medical community has made in treating cancer through immunotherapy, and he's a big believer in the potential in precision health.

• Quentis Therapeutics, a New York City - based biotech company that focuses on treating cancer patients, raised $ 48 million in Series A funding.

In the earlier days of Icon Group, the company had a broad mandate to treat cancer care.

Among them: «a lack of data standards in treating cancer, lack of data sharing in the research and development enterprise, lack of patient input and participation in clinical trials,» and more.

Traditional pharma giants like Bristol - Myers Squibb (bmy), Merck (mrk), and a compendium of newer biotechs have been treating cancer with an individualized approach since the disease can take so many forms.

The even better news is that scientists are making giant leaps in treating cancer.

Founded in 1994, Exelixis, Inc. (NASDAQ: EXEL) is a commercially successful, oncology - focused biotechnology company that strives to accelerate the discovery, development and commercialization of new medicines for difficult - to - treat cancers.

And there have been developments in cellular therapies to treat cancer, with two treatments aiming for approval by the end of 2017.

In contrast, the typical, less efficient method of treating cancer uses combinations of surgery, chemotherapy and radiation to kill cancer cells.

But treating cancer becomes less mysterious every day, and today Ignyta is writing a new story, identifying the genomic causes of cancer and creating targeted cancer drugs that attack cancer at its source.

They have instead offered concessions like raising caps on foreign investors» stakes in Chinese financial institutions, and proposed eliminating import tariffs in narrow categories like drugs to treat cancer.

The drugs have led to major advances in treating cancer and other diseases, but often come with a massive price tag.

«Synthetic lethality represents a powerful, personalized approach to treating cancer, and IDEAYA is well positioned to advance the next wave of biomarker - driven synthetic lethality therapies into the clinic,» said Thilo Schroeder, Ph.D., partner at Nextech Invest Ltd..

Aethlon's products include the Hemopurifier, a customizable dialysis - like device for filtering blood of toxins and pathogens, and to treat cancer.

Publishing a commentary about Bitcoin by an institutional economics professor is as responsible as letting a village witch doctor give lectures on the merits of proton radiation therapy to treat cancer («The Bitcoin myth,» March 3).

This approval marks a major shift in oncology, with a truly revolutionary approach to treating cancer.

Wearable fitness trackers like FitBit could be used to evaluate and help treat cancer patients, according to new researcher from the University of Texas Southwestern.

SHENZHEN / SHANGHAI, China (Reuters)- At its high - tech laboratories in the Chinese manufacturing hub of Shenzhen, Beike Biotechnology is developing medical robots that could help treat cancer.

This biotechnology company treats cancer and inflammatory diseases worldwide.

The stock popped 55 percent Thursday after management announced a «breakthrough» discovery of a molecule capable of shutting down tumor activity and treating cancer.

It is hoped this means of treating cancer will be more successful and result in far less debilitating side effects than chemotherapy.

In addition to having the stigma of being called a «marijuana stock,» Insys has brought a lot of negative publicity on itself over its marketing practices for Subsys, its under - the - tongue spray that's used to treat cancer pain.

If you are 76 and the Doctor says we are not treating your cancer, and the health law says you can't be treated even if you have the money to pay for treatment yourself.

Depends whether human nature is using it to treat cancer or build nuclear bombs.

These drugs were used primarily to treat cancer but they were also reasonably effective in producing medical abortion, at least up to eight weeks gestation.

What if we could see virtual projections of a brain tumor to better understand ways to treat cancer?

A group of researchers thinks it may have found an exciting new way to treat cancer: nanobots.

@pogojo — that's like saying that a dark - ages doctor would still advocate bleeding to treat cancer, not chemo.

Moreover, any doctor who would treat cancer pain with cortisone — an anti-inflammatory drug — should have his license stripped!

Researchers found that avocado seed husks contain compounds that could help to kill viruses, combat heart problems, and treat cancer.

Turmeric is powerful enough to treat cancer, increase cognitive function and lower your risk of heart disease.

If you're using a ketogenic diet to treat specific health conditions (e.g., controlling your blood sugar, treating cancer, or treating epilepsy), then you probably need to be on the diet for an indefinite period of time.

Very occasionally, there are sound medical reasons for not breastfeeding — for example, if you have HIV or, in rare cases, you're taking a medication that could harm your baby, such as drugs for treating cancer.

These women may not be able to make enough breast milk because of a previous breast or chest surgery, or they may not be able to breastfeed because they need to have chemotherapy or radiation to treat cancer.

I will be forty when I'm finally done treating my cancer.

(there seems to be a legal and political precedent for this; e.g. levying sin taxes on tobacco producers to cover budget for treating cancer; or levying taxes on medical device manufacturers as part of ACA / Obamacare to help fund it).

It remains as important as ever to improve how we prevent, diagnose and treat cancer.

Manipulating the immune system to treat cancer has been explored in the field for the last decade.

In his call for practice change, Bekelman cites research showing the shorter radiation treatment — known as moderate hypofractionation — is just as effective at treating cancer, while costing less and easing the burden on patients.

HAPPY TREE Doctors use synthetic versions of a compound derived from a rare tree — Camptotheca acuminata, used for centuries in traditional Chinese medicine — to treat cancer.

That desire must have led the US surgeon to the first published account of «fever therapy» — treating cancer with pathogenic bacteria.

It is also being promoted to treat cancer.

One approach to treating cancer, therefore, is targeting the pathways that cancer cells have adapted to meet these energy needs, thus «starving» the cancer.

Researchers from Instituto de Medicina Molecular (iMM) Lisboa have created a chimera virus that allows the study of molecules to treat cancers caused by human herpes virus infection in mice models of disease.