Sentences with phrase «against cancer cells because»

FWGE appears to be so effective against cancer cells because is literally acts as a «biological bounty hunter» for them, especially cancer cells that may be «hidden» from the view of our body's own natural killer cells.

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Now a University of Colorado Cancer Center study published online ahead of print in the journal Oncogene offers compelling evidence explaining this failure and offering a possible strategy for the use of retinoic acid or other retinoids against some breast cancers: Because early clinical trials are often offered to patients who have already tried other more established therapies, breast cancer cells may have been pushed past an important tipping point that offers retinoic acid resisCancer Center study published online ahead of print in the journal Oncogene offers compelling evidence explaining this failure and offering a possible strategy for the use of retinoic acid or other retinoids against some breast cancers: Because early clinical trials are often offered to patients who have already tried other more established therapies, breast cancer cells may have been pushed past an important tipping point that offers retinoic acid resiscancer cells may have been pushed past an important tipping point that offers retinoic acid resistance.

Because the different cancer cells within a tumorous tissue also develop different modes of defense against therapeutic measures, the treatment of patients is extraordinarily difficult.

The frenzied reproduction of cancer cells is also a key part of their ability to evade our assaults, because it is essential to their capacity to evolve new solutions to the challenges that we throw up against them.

This widespread lack of the need for telomerase is used by evolution as a key component of our defense against cancer, because having a limit to the size and renewal of telomeres prevents our cells from replicating themselves indefinitely — the crucial hallmark of cancer.

«These new results are significant because they represent the discovery of a number of more potent variations of the natural product as cytotoxic agents against cancer cells,» Nicolaou said.

Because it more effectively induces cancer cell apoptosis in p53 - deficient tumors, FL118 is especially effective against late - stage cancers, which usually lose functional p53 and are resistant to DNA - damage drugs.

Knowing the answer is important both as a matter of basic immunology and because NK cells, as crucial members of the body's first line of infection defense, are often the subjects of efforts to harness the immune system in protection against infections and cancer.

«This is because the stress led to poor function against the cancer by T - cells, which are very important in the immune system's control and surveillance of tumours and are a major target in many immunotherapy treatments.»

Cancer stem cells (CSCs) in the hypoxic BM regions are blamed for the incurability of MM, because CSCs are often resistant to drugs currently used against BM cancers (including proteasome inhibitors and immunomodulatory agents).

While orange sweet potatoes have anti-carcinogenic properties, it was found that purple sweet potatoes have better cancer - fighting abilities because they have cyanidins and peonidins, which have a positive effect against cancer cell growth.

Vitamin D also has cell - normalizing (anti-proliferation) properties, and because cancer is cell proliferation gone mad, it protects against many cancers.