The drug is still used today under strict controls to treat some bone marrow cancer patients.
At his age he was almost 60 and after a decade of chronic bone marrow cancer, his disease was especially dangerous.
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Though he is currently battling multiple myeloma, a fatal bone-marrow cancer, Simons says he is willing to take the stand for either side to clarify the patent if the Applera lawsuit goes to trial.
Revlimid, a treatment for bone marrow cancer, was a good example (and there are others) where manufacturers have shown flexibility in pricing in the UK, despite the fact that the same medicines are widely available to patients elsewhere in Europe and often at higher prices.
But it turned out to have a positive impact on myeloma, interfering with the surrounding environment in the bone marrow that the cancer cells need to flourish.
Oncologists were convinced that super doses of chemo followed by transfusions of bone marrow could help breast cancer patients.
In minute amounts, bute can cause fatal bone marrow depression diseases, cancer and hypersensitivity reactions in humans, according to researchers.
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Bone marrow transplants help fight cancer by spurring immune response, as does one of the main treatments for bladder cancer.
They often go from brashly demanding cures to learning that some treatments that seemed to help, like bone marrow transplants for breast cancer, turned out to do harm.
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.
My dad died of Multiple Myeloma, Cancer of the bone marrow, when I was 15.
Ms Sumani developed malignant myeloma, a cancer affecting the bone marrow, while living in Cardiff.
It is now increasingly used as a treatment for multiple myeloma, a cancer of the bone marrow.
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.
The conference is also expected to hear from Spanish scientists who will say they have identified drugs used to treat patients receiving a bone marrow transplant or those with breast cancer which can damage the lungs.
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.
Ron has been fighting cancer since 2008, experiencing two expensive bone marrow transplants in the effort to save his life.
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Someday he envisions cancer centers storing giant banks of premade T cells to match the patients' bone marrow and tumor types.
The 38-year-old was outraged that no bed had been available on Monday in the hospital's bone marrow unit for her partner, who has non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a form of lymphatic cancer.
Novartis' breakthrough cancer drug Gleevec helped somewhat but failed to dislodge the mutant cells from their hideout inside his bone marrow.
Novartis (nyse: NVS - news - people )' breakthrough cancer drug Gleevec helped somewhat but failed to dislodge the mutant cells from their hideout inside his bone marrow.
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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