My dad died of Multiple Myeloma, Cancer of the bone marrow, when I was 15.
It is now increasingly used as a treatment for multiple myeloma, a cancer of the bone marrow.
When he was 14, Zach was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a type of bone cancer that mostly strikes children.
Prior to the recent FDA action, Fusilev had approval for the treatment of osteosarcoma, a type of bone cancer.
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Diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer when he was nine years old, Sundquist had his left leg amputated a year later.
When Jalaine Sommers' 5-year-old rottweiler, Clyde, was diagnosed with an aggressive form of bone cancer of the leg, her vet recommended amputation and chemotherapy.
Kubert died Sunday of multiple myeloma, a cancer that attacks bone marrow, said Mike Chen, the academic director of the Kubert School in Dover, New Jersey.
He died in January at 57 from leukemia, the end result of a two-year struggle against myelodysplastic syndrome, a form of cancer that affects the bone marrow.
Novartis (nyse: NVS - news - people ) is also studying its drug Zometa, used to treat erosion of bone due to cancer, against rheumatoid arthritis.
Novartis (nyse: NVS - news - people ) is studying Zometa--its drug used to treat erosion of bone caused by cancer--for its effectiveness against rheumatoid arthritis.
Oncologists were convinced that super doses of chemo followed by transfusions of bone marrow could help breast cancer patients.
Zometa is currently on the market, approved by the Food and Drug Administration for a bone-related complication of cancer.
When someone receives a bone marrow transplant as a treatment for cancer, what they are getting is an injection of the hematopoietic stem cells that are found in bone marrow.
It can lead to serious long-term complications, such as the brittle bone disease osteoporosis, infertility and cancer of the small intestine.
That is what Amgen hopes it has in a drug to treat osteoporosis and maybe stop bone complications in all sorts of cancer patients.
It works not on the primary cancer but on one of its most dangerous consequences, secondary bone tumours.
Of 62 patients whose prostate cancer had spread to the bone, 53 saw improvement on their bone scans.
Late last year, the drug chalked up a medical first when it became the first drug to delay the onset of bone metastases in high-risk prostate cancer patients who were failing hormone therapy.
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The biotechnology firm announced that a much-awaited study of its bone drug Xgeva (also known as denosumab, and sold for osteoporosis as Prolia) prevented prostate cancer from spreading to the bone in patient whose levels of prostate-specific antigen are rising.
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Diagnosed with bone cancer in her left leg at the age of 11, Yu eventually had to have part of it removed.
Someday he envisions cancer centers storing giant banks of premade T cells to match the patients' bone marrow and tumor types.
The bone is one of the most common places where breast cancer spreads, and once it does so it is not considered curable.
The most immediate sales impact could come from the surprise finding that the company's bone-boosting drug Zometa slashed the recurrence of breast cancer in pre-menopausal women by about 35% in an 1, 800 person trial, when combined with standard treatment.
Its bone drug Zometa was unexpectedly shown to reduce risk of breast cancer recurring by 35%.
Bone marrow transplants help fight cancer by spurring immune response, as does one of the main treatments for bladder cancer.
If she had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, fought through rounds of chemo and radiation to no avail, and decided against a bone marrow transplant (which, in this hypothetical situation, which reflects the vast majority of real cases, would more likely kill her than enable a cure) she would be honored and remembered as noble, virtuous and brave.
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According to a study published in tomorrow's New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), a drug called pamidronate can prevent such bone weakening in prostate cancer patients.
In a result eagerly awaited by Wall Street, drug developer Seattle Genetics announced that its experimental cancer medicine shrank tumors in 75% of patients with Hodgkin lymphoma that had relapsed despite rounds of chemotherapy and bone marrow transplants.
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The imaging mechanism can non-invasively permeate thin layers of bone, such as the skull, and can help define a targeted treatment strategy for persistent cancer.
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Or the seventy-year-old with a cancer that had metastasized to her lungs and bone, and a fungal pneumonia that arises only in the final phase of the illness.
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