The major killers--tumors of the lung, colon, prostate and pancreas-have resisted targeted therapies (see chart, p. 124).
Fujino realized LHRH would make a perfect treatment for prostate and breast cancer.
Womack recently returned to music after having surgery for prostate and colon cancer and suffering pneumonia twice and collapsed lungs.
Because EGF is present in more than half of cancers, trials of Iressa are under way for prostate and breast cancer.
Most solid tumors of the colon, lung, breast, prostate and pancreas have a slew of defective genes propelling their rapid growth.
Because EGF is present in more than half of all cancers, Iressa trials are under way for prostate and breast cancer.
Just as I came on air, my soul mate of 18 years, Jim, received a diagnosis of terminal prostate and liver cancer.
He expects approval by midyear for the use of Casodex and Arimidex to treat prostate and breast cancer, respectively, immediately upon diagnosis.
Beginning this year, the law will make all Medicare preventive services, such as screenings for colon, prostate and breast cancer, free to beneficiaries.
Previous research has found single men have a poorer chance of surviving several types of cancer, including prostate and head and neck cancer.
In a "keyhole" prostatectomy, a surgeon manipulates chopsticklike instruments through tiny slits in the body to remove a cancer-ridden prostate and reconstruct its surroundings.
More men are now surviving prostate and bowel cancer and women with breast cancer have a better outlook than ever before.
The Japanese have lower rates of prostate and breast cancer than the U.S., a fact attributed to their greater intake of soy and low-fat foods.
Complicating matters further: The urethra passes through the center of the prostate and must be reconnected back to the bladder once the prostate is removed.
The vaccine, called Stimuvax, aims to stimulate the immune system to attack a protein fragment called MUC-1 found on lung, breast, prostate and colon tumors.
Others at higher risk include those over 50s, men with an enlarged prostate and men who enjoy a diet high in saturated fat and who smoke.
"These are very compelling data, " said Dr. Durado Brooks, director of prostate and colorectal cancers at the American Cancer Society, who was not involved in the research.
In 2001 researchers at Columbia University and ucla showed in mouse experiments that MTOR drugs compensated for the loss of a protein mutated in prostate and brain cancers.
By contrast, prostate and breast cancers are often quite slow-growing, so slow in fact that many experts assert that many of these cancers are best left to their own devices.
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Every year 230, 000 American men are diagnosed with the disease (86% of them in the earlier stages), 70, 000 get surgery to remove the prostate and 30, 000 die of prostate cancer.
There is also growing concern that problems such as prostate and testicular cancer are ignored by men until they are at a late stage when treatment is not as effective.
Results for patients with lung, prostate and ovarian cancer, however, did not differ significantly between rural and urban dwellers - a finding that Dr Campbell said could not currently be explained.
Or you can pick your poison, choosing between surgery to remove the prostate and one of two forms of radiation, external beam radiation and radioactive "seeds" implanted in the gland itself.
We now know the SNPs for cancer of the breast, prostate and lung as well as for obesity, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, Alzheimer's, multiple sclerosis, cardiovascular disease, deep-vein thrombosis, schizophrenia and countless more.
His vice president, Jose Alencar, died of prostate and stomach cancer in March 2011 and his current successor, Dilma Rousseff, suffered from lymphatic cancer in 2009 just prior to running for the presidency.
Cyclopamine, it turns out, blocks the function of a gene called Sonic hedgehog that is essential for embryonic development but also plays a lead role in causing deadly cancers of the pancreas, skin, prostate and esophagus.
Every year 230, 000 American men are diagnosed with the disease (86% of them in the earlier stages), 70, 000 get surgery to remove the prostate and 30, 000 die of prostate cancer (see p. 57 for global figures).
In addition, Nelson notes, Myriad has products on the market, including several diagnostic tests for genes that confer susceptibility to breast, prostate and colon cancers, and it sells these tests through a collaboration with Burlington, N.
Since then, over 100 scientific studies have linked low doses of BPA to prostate and breast cancer, reproductive abnormalities, accelerated puberty in females, low sperm count in males, neurological effects similar to ADHD, diabetes and even obesity.
Female rats exposed to the hydrocarbon JP8 at the point in pregnancy when their male foetuses were developing gonads had babies with more prostate and kidney abnormalities, and their great-grandchildren had reproductive anomalies, polycystic ovary disease and obesity.
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