Sentences with phrase «weeks after his cancer»

Venezuela's opposition demanded that the government reveal specifics of President Hugo Chavez's condition, criticising secrecy surrounding the ailing leader's health more than three weeks after his cancer surgery in Cuba.

That painting with the Phillipians verse is a beautiful confirmation for me (have been resting on that verse for the last week after a cancer diagnosis).

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The senator from Arizona returned Monday to Washington, DC, less than a week after being diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer and less than two weeks after he had brain surgery.

When Jedd Wolchok, a cancer doctor and immunologist leading a Yervoy trial at Memorial Sloan Kettering, examined a melanoma patient's scan 12 weeks after he'd received his course of treatment, the results were utterly disappointing — just like those of any other metastatic patient in the final throes of the disease: The tumors had gotten bigger, and there were more of them.

This week, after more than three months of searching, Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) announced that IT industry leader Kristin Darby, CPA, MBA, will join the company as its Chief Information Officer.

Juno Therapeutics» cancer study has now been allowed to resume a week after its clinical trials were suspended by the FDA.

Those first weeks after the diagnosis were consumed by assessments, tests, and scans as the doctors searched to understand my cancer.

Instead of beating itself over the head with its own concocted image issue, maybe they can let these guys who spend 40 hours a week crashing into the strongest, fastest, most armored 1 percent of people in the world smoke pot after a game without worrying about being labeled a «thug» or a «locker room cancer.»

Holdsclaw, who in 2006 took a two - week leave from the Sparks after learning both her father and stepfather had cancer, said her retirement wasn't a sign of a relapse.

Berizzo's battle with prostate cancer was confirmed last week just hours after Sevilla produced a famous comeback from 3 - 0 down to draw 3 - 3 with Liverpool in the Champions League.

This week we'll be sharing some stories about breastfeeding after breast cancer and headlining our support for CoppaFeel!

Sawyer was first diagnosed in preschool, and after having a tumor removed and undergoing six weeks of chemotherapy, his cancer went into remission.

One of my first thoughts (right after feeling terribly sad for Sir Hubby, who lost his mother to cancer a mere week before our Bug was born 6 years ago) is «that is exactly how newborns must feel when they enter the world!»

In the first TV interview since his diagnosis, U.S. Sen. John McCain, 81, said that he'll jump right into Senate business this week after getting treatment for his «very vicious» brain cancer.

Brad Grey, the University at Buffalo graduate - turned - Hollywood mogul, died this week after a battle with cancer.

The decision comes just two days after Thompson's funeral, which governor spoke at, eight days after his abrupt death from cancer and less than two weeks after the borough's top law enforcement official announced he would take a leave of absence to combat the disease.

Cuomo said the law now requires insurance coverage of screening - associated costs, support services and breast cancer screening centers to be open an additional four hours a week, after 5 p.m. or on weekends.

Calling hours were held Wednesday for Albany Police Detective Jason Martin, who died last week after a battle with cancer.

Deliberations began on Tuesday morning after a three - week trial in which prosecutors sought to prove that Mr. Silver, a Manhattan Democrat, had obtained nearly $ 4 million in illegal payments in exchange for taking official actions that benefited a cancer researcher and two real estate developers.

Just weeks after he was named chief medical officer at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Dr. Boris Kuvshinoff was diagnosed with an inoperable late - stage tumor in the nasal cavity above his mouth and became a patient there.

After years of struggle over state funding for Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Cuomo last week proposed the first state budget in years with no cuts in aid to the Buffalo research hospital.

Cuomo said the law now requires insurance coverage of screening - associated costs, support services and breast cancer screening centers to be open an additional four hours week, after 5 p.m. or on weekends.

Thompson, who was elected in 2013, announced last week that he was battling cancer after being absent from his office for two months.

ELMHURST — A local NYPD sergeant was mourned this week after succumbing to cancer he developed after working at Ground Zero, family and the NYPD said.

This time, she was given different chemotherapy — docetaxel and gemcitabine — as it was assumed that her cancer had grown resistant to the previous drugs, and, after several weeks, the tumours had shrunk right down.

Men whose blood levels of DNA had decreased at eight weeks after treatment survived an average of 17 months, compared with only 10.1 months for men whose cancer DNA levels remained high.

The study came a couple of weeks after Laron and his colleagues published a survey of cases in the Middle East and Europe that also revealed a near - complete absence of cancer.

A 2005 study showed that 92 percent of nearly 3,000 women with breast cancer who walked or did other exercise three to five hours weekly were still alive 10 years after their diagnosis, compared with 86 percent of those who exercised less than an hour a week.

For most patients — including actor Patrick Swayze, who died this week as a result of this aggressive malignancy — abdominal pain, weight loss and jaundice are the disease's first indicators, and their onset usually occurs after the cancer has metastasized, erasing any possible benefit of surgery.

Although she never received any medical or surgical treatment for the deadly cancer invading her lungs, six weeks after starting psychosynthesis, her tumors began to shrink.

A new study by UCLA scientists has found that women diagnosed with breast cancer and treated with a one - week regimen of partial breast radiation after the surgical removal of the tumor, or lumpectomy, saw no increase in cancer recurrence or difference in cosmetic outcomes compared to women who received radiation of the entire breast for a period of up to six weeks after surgery.

One week after a breakthrough finding, scientists report they can reprogram human skin cells to behave like embryonic stem cells without a growth factor known to cause cancer

Other experiments with iPS cells have suggested that they might be prone to causing cancer, but none of the treated mice showed any signs of tumors after 12 weeks.

After seven weeks of hypnotic relaxation therapy, a 69 - year - old man who had uncontrolled hot flashes following prostate cancer surgery showed a drastic decrease not only in hot flashes but also an impressive improvement in sleep quality, according to the study.

The scientists collected the samples at the start of therapy, four weeks later and when the women's cancers were «restaged,» usually after 12 weeks.

«What we see is an association between shorter periods of progression - free survival and overall survival in patients whose blood has higher levels of hypermethylated DNA, and we can see this very early on, after just four weeks of treatment,» says Sara Sukumar, Ph.D., professor of oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and member of the Kimmel Cancer Center, who developed the test with Johns Hopkins scientist Mary Jo Fackler, Ph.D., and others.

Among 10 women with advanced ovarian cancer who got injections of the personalized vaccine once every three weeks — with the medications cyclophosphamide and bevacizumab (marketed as Avastin)-- eight showed a strong immune response and were still alive after two years.

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Laura Bilek, Graham Sharp, and Geoffrey Thiele, all of the University of Nebraska Medical Center, and Daniel Shackelford, Colin Quinn, and Carole Schneider, all of Rocky Mountain Cancer Rehabilitation Institute, analyzed T cells in the blood of cancer survivors before and after a 12 - week exercise prCancer Rehabilitation Institute, analyzed T cells in the blood of cancer survivors before and after a 12 - week exercise prcancer survivors before and after a 12 - week exercise program.

Small pilot study suggests that T cells become more responsive in exercising cancer survivors weeks after chemo ends

WESTMINSTER, CO (October 10, 2012)-- Researchers may soon be able to add yet another item to the list of exercise's well - documented health benefits: A preliminary study suggests that when cancer survivors exercise for several weeks after they finish chemotherapy, their immune systems remodel themselves to become more effective, potentially fending off future incidences of cancer.

Similarly, the risk of cardiovascular death was six times higher during the first week and three times higher during the first month, after a cancer diagnosis, compared to people without cancer.

This week, we took a look at the latest studies underway around exercise after breast cancer.

Cancer returned in 26 of the 430 patients with undetectable MRD when treatment ended after 120 weeks.

Treating mice with anti-STAT5 drugs for a few weeks after they finished nursing their young lessened the elevated cancer risk, and so the next challenge is to see if this approach will also be effective in human clinical trials.

I was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer at age 32, five weeks after I had my first child.

On goals: My stepfather was diagnosed with cancer and sadly passed away a week after the challenge ended.

Not only will it help protect your skin from cancer and a sunburn, but a sunburn can hinder your ability to work out for 1 - 2 weeks after the initial burn.

ACOG's recommendations come less than a week after the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), an independent panel of experts that advises the federal government on preventive care, released new guidelines for breast cancer screening.