Sentences with phrase «immune attack doctors»

IMMUNE ATTACK Doctors can engineer a patient's own immune cells to kill cancer cells.

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Unlike other autoimmune diseases, however, doctors know the trigger for coeliac disease: gluten, which provokes an immune response that causes the body to attack itself.

Researchers are developing many different versions of CAR - T cell therapies, but the basic premise is the same: Doctors remove a patient's T cells (immune system cells that attack invaders) from a blood sample and genetically modify them to produce artificial proteins on their surfaces.

Doctors generally treat aplastic anemia effectively using immunosuppressives — drugs that prevent the immune system from attacking bone marrow — allowing recovery of the patient's own marrow and long - term survival.

Yet the success of both depends on doctors being able to manipulate the body's immune system, to prevent organ rejection in one case and the overzealous immune responses which appear to cause asthma attacks in the other.

Following a tissue graft transplant — such as that of the face, hand, arm or leg — it is standard for doctors to immediately give transplant recipients immunosuppressant drugs to prevent their body's immune system from rejecting and attacking the new body part.

Essentially, my immune system was attacking my thyroid and my doctor told me that eventually my thyroid would be gone.

But most doctors will never tell people that they have Hashimoto's, or that their immune system is attacking their thyroid.

Doctors don't know what causes your immune system to attack your thyroid gland.

Doctors routinely treat the symptoms of Hashimoto's instead of attempting to identify the root cause and the end result is that the immune system continues to attack the thyroid even while your symptoms are being managed.

But most doctors will never tell people that they have Hashimoto's, or that their own immune system is attacking their thyroid.