Sentences with phrase «types of aggressive cancers»

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APRIL KING: Yes, but the type of cancer that I had was very aggressive, so my oncologist... Things rolled very fast.

There is at least one approved device and scores of experimental treatments being tested that could improve the odds of longer - term survival for patients with the type of extremely aggressive brain cancer afflicting U.S. Sen. John McCain.

Hematopoietic stem cells, that form mature blood cells, require a very precise amount of protein to function — and defective regulation of protein production is common in certain types of aggressive human blood cancers.

Now, immunotherapy — a type of treatment that harnesses the patient's immune system to combat the disease — represents the future of cancer treatment, with its efficacy being demonstrated in even the most aggressive types of cancer.

Due to an inability to differentiate aggressive cancers from nonaggressive types, physicians treat the majority of cases, which may lead to side effects such as impotence and / or incontinence.

We hope that these new insights will allow us to increase our understanding of the molecular mechanisms that result in cancer and to more effectively treat this aggressive type of leukemia.»

Eating a diet higher in saturated fat, a type of fat found commonly in foods such as fatty beef and cheese, was linked to more aggressive prostate cancer, a study by University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers and collaborators has cancer, a study by University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers and collaborators has Cancer Center researchers and collaborators has found.

There's a reason why melanoma, the most serious type of skin cancer, is so aggressive.

«Our findings suggest that this new drug combination would also help patients with this type of aggressive breast cancer as well as other cancers, such as lung, prostate and ovarian cancers,» Dr. Rassool says.

A COMPOUND that slows the proliferation of triple - negative breast cancer cells in lab tests could lead to the first drugs to target this aggressive type of tumour.

Researchers in China have discovered that a metabolic enzyme called AKR1B1 drives an aggressive type of breast cancer.

Together with clinical researchers, they are preparing treatments for glioblastoma — the most aggressive brain cancer in adults — , Friedreich's Ataxia — a hereditary neurodegenerative disease — , and a type of paediatric brain cancer.

Researchers at the University of Calgary's Hotchkiss Brain Institute (HBI) and Southern Alberta Cancer Research Institute (SACRI) have made a discovery that could prolong the life of people living with glioblastoma — the most aggressive type of brain cCancer Research Institute (SACRI) have made a discovery that could prolong the life of people living with glioblastoma — the most aggressive type of brain cancercancer.

Osteosarcoma, a type of bone cancer, is a rare but very aggressive form of cancer that primarily affects teenagers.

Two Northwestern University scientists have identified a biomarker strongly associated with basal - like breast cancer, a highly aggressive carcinoma that is resistant to many types of chemotherapy.

The most common type of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in adults, DLBCL is an aggressive cancer that can develop in many types of tissue.

The authors stressed that the long - term reduction in aggressive disease was observed only in men after more than a year of testosterone use, and the risk of prostate cancer did not differ between gels and other types of preparations.

In a new study published in Scientific Reports, Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU)- led researchers investigated photodynamic detection of cancer stem cells in a glioma cell line, a model of a highly aggressive type of brain cancer.

Learn who is at higher risk for melanoma and what features are more concerning for this aggressive type of skin cancer

Hydrochlorothiazide increased the risk of basal cell carcinoma, which is the least serious type of skin cancer, as well as of squamous cell carcinoma, which is more aggressive and in some cases manages to spread to other parts of the body.

AML is an aggressive type of cancer that affects the bone marrow and blood.

Scientists at Cedars - Sinai have developed a new way to identify which prostate cancer patients are likely to develop aggressive types of the disease even if their tumors at first appear to be lower risk.

The targets of these drugs were not know to be present in cancer cells and therefore no one had considered the possibility that these drugs might be effective against aggressive cancer types, says Professor Ivaska.

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A new study finds that more than half of women with early stage breast cancer considered an aggressive type of surgery to remove both breasts.

Genetically modified «hunter» T cells successfully migrated to and penetrated a deadly type of brain tumor known as glioblastoma (GBM) in a clinical trial of the new therapy, but the cells triggered an immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment and faced a complex mutational landscape that will need to be overcome to better treat this aggressive cancer, Penn Medicine researchers report in a new study this week in Science Translational Medicine.

Answering important clinical questions — such as whether genetic diversity is a risk factor for aggressive tumor development or how it relates to treatment resistance — requires analyzing samples from many patients with different types of cancer.

It is commonly thought that bladder cancers that develop after pelvic radiation tend to be aggressive, with high grades and stages, but this study found that the types, grades, and stages of bladder cancer that developed were similar in patients treated with and without radiation therapy.

Previous in vitro studies conducted by researchers in other countries showed that this molecule was able to reduce the multiplication and increase the mortality of cells from melanoma, the most aggressive type of skin cancer, as well as breast cancer and neuroblastoma, a tumor that typically affects patients aged 15 or younger.

The discovery offers a new treatment option beyond chemotherapy for this aggressive type of breast cancer.

But in both cases, tumors can become resistant to treatments — leading to the most challenging and aggressive types of those cancers.

«New drug active against most aggressive type of lung cancer cells.»

A new study shows coibamide A has potent anti-cancer activity in mice and cell cultures that model brain tumors and triple negative breast cancer, two of the most aggressive and difficult - to - treat types of cancer.

Compared to other types of breast cancer, triple negative breast cancers are often more aggressive and have fewer treatment options.

Patients with a particularly aggressive type of brain cancer typically don't have many treatment options.

Further, the relationship between Myc and TXNIP is not observed in other types of breast cancer, suggesting that it is a feature of only aggressive triple negative breast cancers and not other less aggressive breast cancer types.

These findings show that MAX acts as a tumor suppressor gene in one of the more aggressive types of lung cancer.

Last night Sen. John McCain's office announced the maverick politician had been diagnosed with a type of aggressive brain cancer called glioblastoma.

Glioblastoma is a particularly aggressive type of brain cancer.

«Triple - negative breast cancers tend to be more aggressive compared to other types of breast cancers, and being able to predict response to therapy could greatly impact treatment decisions and patient outcomes,» says study author Shaveta Vinayak, MD, oncologist at UH Case Medical Center and Assistant Professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.

A genetic test developed at UPMC proved highly sensitive at determining which pancreatic cysts are most likely to be associated with one of the most aggressive types of pancreatic cancer, UPMC and University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine scientists reported in Gut, the journal of the British Society of Gastroenterology.

The research ideas you develop at the workshop should: • Lead to the significant advancement of our understanding of sensor technologies suitable for liquid biopsy • Consider the practical challenges of low volume liquid usually taken for analysis and the inconsistency of sample preparation across point of care sites • Prioritise biomarkers with high specificity for cancer or even for multiple cancer types, including markers specific to cancers that will become aggressive as opposed to non-lethal disease

Blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm (BPDCN) is a very aggressive type of cancer with multiple manifestations including skin lesions, abnormal cell counts and central nervous system (CNS) disease involvement.

Basal - type breast carcinoma is a highly aggressive form of breast cancer.

The aggressive basal - type breast cancers often metastasize, seeding new tumors in distant parts of the body.

LA JOLLA — Scientists at the Salk Institute have uncovered a molecule whose mutation leads to the aggressive growth of a common and deadly type of lung cancer in humans.

She is exploring new therapeutic avenues for the aggressive forms of this type of cancer.

A network of transcription factors may drive different subtypes of aggressive bladder cancer, allowing researchers to turn one type of tumor into another

B - cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B - ALL) is an aggressive cancer that originates from a type of white blood cell called the B lymphocyte.

In a report published in the New England Journal of Medicine, scientists say that a panel of 20 genes can distinguish the more common localized prostate cancer that grows slowly and rarely spreads from the more aggressive type that can spread quickly.