Sentences with phrase «with multiple cancer»

The first step was when she noticed several papers that contained a mistake in a DNA construct which, she believed, meant the papers were not testing the gene in question, associated with multiple cancer types.

Ms. Bantug is a breast cancer survivor with an extensive history of breast cancer advocacy and outreach work with multiple cancer organizations.

Women with the variant were at much higher risk for cancer, had more recurrences, were often hit with multiple cancers and were more likely to die from aggressive forms of these diseases.

Not exact matches

«We remain committed to advancing our IDO pathway inhibitor indoximod, which continues to generate exciting data in combination with anti-PD-1 agents, cancer vaccines, and chemotherapy in multiple cancer types including melanoma, prostate cancer, acute myeloid leukemia, and pancreatic cancer.»

Multiple myeloma, he said, «had been a vague phrase» in his life until he himself was diagnosed with this blood cancer, which strikes just over 30,000 Americans each year and kills about 12,600.

But researchers at the University of Aberdeen found that a treatment originally designed for fighting cancer and diabetes could melt away fatty arterial plaque with a single dosing and reverse the effects of atherosclerosis, which can lead to multiple heart problems.

Along with the introduction of other new drugs such as psoriasis treatment Cosentyx, Novartis is hoping that Kymriah will help turn things around after the patent protections expired for its Gleevec cancer drug and Gilenya multiple sclerosis treatment, opening the door to cheaper competitors.

According to Loncar, U.S. pharma giant Johnson & Johnson (jnj) and Danish biotech partner Genmab stood above their peers during the conference with stellar new data for Darzalex, a treatment for multiple myeloma (a rare blood cancer) that was first approved last year.

The two companies plan to develop drugs to fight multiple cancer types, either alone or in combination with their other cancer treatments.

The drug already has undergone initial testing in more than 550 patients with multiple types of cancer.

In the drive to improve early detection and treatment of cancer, a pair of Toronto scientists has developed a unique technology that combines contrast agents with targeted, long - lasting nano - particles for use in multiple medical imaging platforms.

But to the young widow with children to raise alone, to the man dying an agonizing and untimely death from cancer, to the person full of life and hope who is incapacitated by multiple sclerosis, or to the child who has to start his or her life with an uncorrectable birth defect, the average isn't what matters.

Two of them also examined the effect of multiple abortions, and both of these found the risk of breast cancer to increase with the number of induced abortions.

Women who are diagnosed with cancer or multiple sclerosis are six times more likely to find themselves separated or divorced shortly after their diagnosis than if they were a man, according to a study.

Women who are diagnosed with cancer or multiple sclerosis are six times more likely to find themselves separated or divorced shortly after their diagnosis than if they were a man, according to the study.

We've coslept with all of our little ones, but my cancer battle, surgery, and a recent flare of a birth injury has me in constant pain and my tossing and turning has been waking our toddler up multiple times a night.

Geraldine Ferraro, the first woman to run for vice president on a major party ticket and a congresswoman who championed Queens in the House for six years, died Saturday in Boston after a 12 - year battle with multiple myeloma, a blood cancer.

Eligible conditions include cancer, HIV / AIDS, ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease), Parkinson's Disease, multiple sclerosis, damage to the nervous tissue of the spinal cord with objective neurological indication of intractable spasticity, epilepsy, inflammatory bowel disease, neuropathies, Huntington's Disease, or others as added by the New York State Commissioner of Health.

Medical marijuana will be available to patients with chronic diseases including cancer, HIV / AIDS, ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease), Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis as well as severe forms of epilepsy.

«This was particularly busy time — often with multiple events in a day — when the governor was negotiating a landmark end - of - session package in Albany to fight heroin addiction and breast cancer, crack down on zombie homes and release much - need money to build supportive housing for the homeless,» Azzopardi stated.

The approach could be used to analyze GWAS results for other sporadic diseases with genetic causes, such as multiple sclerosis, diabetes, and cancer.

He and his colleagues are now investigating how gene profiles are altered and whether these techniques could ease symptoms in people with high blood pressure, inflammatory bowel disease and multiple myeloma, a type of bone marrow cancer.

A National Cancer Institute long - termstudy, involving25, 619 industrial workers in 10 factories that produced or used formaldehyde, found an increased risk of death due to leukemia, particularly myeloid leukemia, and higher rates of nasal - pharynx cancer.Further examination of the same workers, with ten more years of data, continued to show a possible link to leukemia, as well as lymphoma and multiple myeloma, amongthosewiththe highest exposures.

«Despite new therapies, it's virtually inevitable that a patient with multiple myeloma will experience relapse of the disease at some point,» said senior author Catriona Jamieson, MD, PhD, professor of medicine, Koman Family Presidential Endowed Chair in Cancer Research and chief of the Division of Regenerative Medicine at UC San Diego School of Medicine.

To look for the vessels, Dr. Reich's team used MRI to scan the brains of five healthy volunteers who had been injected with gadobutrol, a magnetic dye typically used to visualize brain blood vessels damaged by diseases, such as multiple sclerosis or cancer.

«Some patients with previous multiple negative prostate biopsies have cancer outside the usual areas sampled on the standard biopsy so the new technology takes away the mystery of a diagnosis.»

In a trio of studies to be presented at the 57th American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting and Exposition in Orlando, investigators at Dana - Farber Cancer Institute will present the results of clinical trials showing that new drug combinations can significantly extend the time in which multiple myeloma is kept in check in patients with relapsed or treatment - resistant forms of the disease.

«Today, we have half a dozen drugs for multiple myeloma that can put patients into remission,» said Tomasson, who treats patients with multiple myeloma at Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes - Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine.

Researchers have designed a nanoparticle - based therapy that is effective in treating mice with multiple myeloma, a cancer of immune cells in the bone marrow.

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed a nanotherapy that is effective in treating mice with multiple myeloma, a cancer of bone marrow immune cells.

Watercress extract taken multiple times a day significantly inhibits the activation of a tobacco - derived carcinogen in cigarette smokers, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI), partner with UPMC CancerCenter, demonstrated in a phase II clinical trial presented today at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting in New Orleans.

In testing multiple HDAC inhibitors in combination with the chemotherapy drug paclitaxel, known to give some benefit for this aggressive cancer, they found that class II HDAC inhibitors signal through a newly discovered pathway to promote synergy with chemotherapy treatment.

Treatment for advanced melanoma has seen success with targeted therapies — drugs that interfere with division and growth of cancer cells by targeting key molecules — especially when multiple drugs are used in combination.

To become a full - blown cancer (as opposed to a cell with a single, potentially threatening mutation — a genetic risk factor for becoming a cancer) requires the accumulation of five to ten mutations, and statistically that requires multiple rounds of cell division and selection.

«Thanks to a deeper understanding of cancer biology, we have a potential new targeted therapy for multiple myeloma, and can better tailor treatment for kids with Wilms tumor.

In contrast, an older woman with multiple other diseases or life - limiting conditions, and without any risk factors for breast cancer, will only be at risk of over-diagnosis and overtreatment and may not benefit from screening.»

If metastatic cancers are most often made up of cells with different genetic drivers, perhaps researchers should be targeting the primary tumor with multiple drugs to contain the cancer.

AA is implicated in multiple cancer types, sometimes with very high mutational burdens, especially in upper tract urothelial cancers (UTUCs).

A new therapeutic approach tested by a team from Maisonneuve - Rosemont Hospital (CIUSSS - EST, Montreal) and the University of Montreal gives promising results for the treatment of multiple myeloma, a cancer of the bone marrow currently considered incurable with conventional chemotherapy and for which the average life expectancy is about 6 or 7 years.

In its first clinical trial, a breakthrough antibody therapy produced at least partial remissions in a third of patients with multiple myeloma who had exhausted multiple prior treatments, investigators at Dana - Farber Cancer Institute and other organizations report today online in the New England Journal of Medicine.

To illuminate the process, the Yale team sequenced normal, primary, and metastatic tumor tissue from multiple individuals, including subjects with a range of cancer types.

Both Tsigelny and Kurzrock agreed that this finding is an excellent example of the power of collaboration between SDSC and the Moores Cancer Center, and that such modeling needed to be studied across tumors and with multiple different genes involved in cCancer Center, and that such modeling needed to be studied across tumors and with multiple different genes involved in cancercancer.

Results from a clinical trial investigating a new T cell receptor (TCR) therapy that uses a person's own immune system to recognize and destroy cancer cells demonstrated a clinical response in 80 percent of multiple myeloma patients with advanced disease after undergoing autologous stem cell transplants (ASCT).

A personalized method for testing the effectiveness of drugs that treat multiple myeloma may predict quickly and more accurately the best treatments for individual patients with the bone marrow cancer.

In patients with the blood cancer multiple myeloma, an enzyme called thymidine phosphorylase sets off a chain reaction that leads to bone destruction, researchers report August 24 in Science Translational Medicine...

More than 80 percent of women with advanced stage high - grade serous ovarian cancer experience relapses even after repeated surgeries and multiple rounds of chemotherapy, and this effective new approach to treat the disease could be a major step forward in preventing cancer from returning.

Dor's own group reports this week that its technique for tracing the origin of circulating DNA detected the expected type of cell death in people with pancreatic cancer, type 1 diabetes, multiple sclerosis, and brain injuries.

This review shows uniform recognition that exercise and physical activity are safe for those with lung cancer, patients are requesting increased activity counseling, and multiple studies and reviews show potential clinical benefit in quality of life, exercise tolerance, and post-operative complications.

One of the biggest questions about the treatment of multiple myeloma, a form of blood cancer, is why nearly all patients treated with current therapies eventually suffer relapse.

«Having these personalized laboratory models, which we can make in a matter of weeks, will let us test multiple different drugs on the tumor and help us bring precision medicine to individuals with bladder cancer.»