Insurance companies are particularly hesitant about insuring anyone that has been diagnosed
with anaplastic thyroid cancer.
American Thyroid Association Guidelines for Management of Patients
with Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer.
«Patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) should receive front line therapy
with the anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) inhibitor crizotinib,» said lead author Professor Giorgio Scagliotti, head of the Department of Oncology, University of Turin, Italy.
Not exact matches
Breast implant - associated
anaplastic large cell lymphoma — or BIA - ALCL — is a rare peripheral T - cell lymphoma that may develop in patients
with breast implants.
Multiplexed genetic screening for epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and
anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) gene rearrangements and subsequent biomarker - guided treatment is cost - effective compared
with standard chemotherapy treatment without any molecular testing in the metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) setting in the United States.
Some patients
with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) have changes in the
anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) gene, which can drive the development of their cancer.
The advent of therapies directed at tumors
with mutations in epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR),
anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK), and B - Raf proto - oncogene (BRAF) genes over the past decade have dramatically changed outcomes, he says.
Anaplastic Large - Cell Lymphoma T
Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase - Positive Associated
With Crohn's Disease Undergoing Treatment
With Azathioprine: A Case Report
Pediatric patients
with ALK - positive
anaplastic large cell lymphomas and inflammatory myofibroblastic tumors had strong responses to treatment
with crizotinib.
TEMODAR is indicated for the treatment of adult patients
with refractory
anaplastic astrocytoma, i.e., patients who have experienced disease progression on a drug regimen containing nitrosourea and procarbazine.
Anaplastic carcinoma makes up 2 % of all thyroid cancer cases, and was made famous by the 2012 bestseller The Fault In Our Stars ($ 11; amazon.com)(the main character, a teen
with this cancer, was played by Shailene Woodley in the movie).
The patients in this landmark clinical study included two female children
with nonresectable advanced stage brain tumors (
anaplastic astrocytoma stage IV, and cerebellar astrocytoma stage III).
On February 1st, after my first day at my new job, I was diagnosed
with Lymphoma (
anaplastic large cell alk negative; one of the rarer types of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma).
She was presented to our Oncology department at VRCC in May of 2009,
with a biopsy confirmed diagnosis of an aggressive sweat gland tumor (
anaplastic apocrine gland adenocarcinoma) of the skin of the right chest wall.