Sentences with phrase «woman with this disease»

Most women with the disease are initially treated with and respond well to platinum - based chemotherapy.

The fifth largest cause of cancer deaths in women, ovarian cancer is generally diagnosed too late in most patients and less than 30 percent of women with the disease survive beyond 10 years.

Therefore, efforts are now being made to enable women with this disease to bear healthy children by means of nuclear transfer.

In many women with the disease, the cancer is very advanced by the time it is diagnosed and is therefore difficult to treat.

Published early online in CANCER, a peer - reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the results indicate that larger trials are warranted to determine whether the drug should become part of standard therapy for women with the disease.

«If we could prevent or treat the interferon response in women with these diseases,» she says, «pregnancy may go better for them.»

Rice says she never expected Cuomo to react the way he did, and is thankful he understands what women with the disease are going through.

Canada has almost eliminated mother - to - child HIV transmission, known as vertical transmission, in recent years by ensuring that all women have the opportunity to be screened for HIV in pregnancy and that women with the disease receive treatment before giving birth.

Research has shown that women with estrogen - sensitive breast cancer (the most common form) who walked just three to five hours a week at a moderate pace experienced a 50 percent lower risk of dying from breast cancer, compared with physically inactive women with the disease.

For example, I have friends who have survived breast cancer, so last year I hosted «The SCAR Project,» a photo exhibition featuring young women with the disease, in order to raise awareness.

«This is the first molecular - targeted and first anti-angiogenesis therapy to demonstrate benefit in this population and, combined with chemotherapy followed by [Avastin] maintenance, should be considered as one standard option for women with this disease,» said lead researcher Dr. Robert A. Burger, director of the Women's Cancer Center at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia.

Tamara Minko, professor in the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, and Lorna Rodriguez, professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, say because there is not a good screening method for ovarian cancer, most women with the disease are not diagnosed until after it has metastasized to other organs and surgery and chemotherapy are not as effective.

Insulin resistance is common in PCOS, affecting as many as 70 percent of women with the disease.

Given these connections between hormonal or reproductive life events and rheumatoid arthritis in women, researchers conducted an observational study to investigate the association of menopause with functional status in women with the disease.

The images showed that individuals with type 2 diabetes have structural defects within their bones, which could weaken them and go some way to explaining the greater rates of fracture found in older men and women with the disease.

Reducing gluten consumption or avoiding it could potentially lessen inflammation in PCOS, but more research is needed before recommending gluten - free diets to all women with the disease.

Because PCOS is now recognized as a risk factor for developing diabetes, it is recommended that women with the disease be routinely screened so that insulin resistance can be found early, and treatment can be initiated earlier.

Sixty - four men and women with the disease were given tests for hand grip strength, rheumatoid factor (a blood marker often associated with inflammation) and C - reactive protein.

Hollywood took this and turned it into a super sappy romance that reminds me a bit of Everything, Everything, also about a woman with a disease who can't leave home.