Sentences with phrase «treatment at advanced stages»

Even when animals began treatment at advanced stages of the disease, AC1903 was able to prevent further podocyte loss and suppress proteinuria, indicating restored kidney function.

Not exact matches

Whereas Murphy's patients were selected for the recent onset of symptoms, the children arriving at Stanford had progressed to advanced stages of the disease without appropriate treatment.

Up to half of women with advanced - stage ovarian cancer might be cured, compared to the current 20 per cent survival rate, argues Dr. Steven Narod, senior scientist at Women's College Research Institute, who calls for a new standard of treatment for women with late - stage ovarian cancer.

«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.

They say their findings, being presented June 2 at the 50th annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), offered several clinical insights that could lead to different treatment strategies and perhaps influence staging of advanced melanoma.

You might expect that the next advances in cancer prevention will mean better and more frequent tests that will pick up tumors at the earliest possible stage, followed by a blitzkrieg treatment that will completely wipe out the disease.

We previously demonstrated that J147 up - regulates the BDNF pathway in huAPP / PS1 mice following seven months of treatment, and here we show that even when administered at a stage when pathology is advanced, J147 can significantly increase two factors critical for memory formation: CREB phosphorylation and BDNF expression (Figure 3H and 3C, respectively).

Administered in the food of 20 - month - old genetically engineered mice, at a stage when Alzheimer's pathology is advanced, J147 rescued severe memory loss, reduced soluble levels of amyloid, and increased neurotrophic factors essential for memory, after only three months of treatment.

To more accurately reflect the clinical setting, we used an alternative screening strategy involving the treatment of AD mice at a stage in the disease when pathology is already advanced.

However, when it comes to assessing how useful critical insurance plans are to specifically cover cancer treatment and related expenses, one major drawback is that such plans cover cancer only at an advanced stage (they come with a 90 - day waiting period).