Sentences with phrase «antibodies against cancer cells»

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They prepared a similar weapon against liver cancer by piggybacking rhenium 18 on antibodies that target HBx, a viral antigen made by cancerous liver cells.

However, most of these efforts failed, even though the antibody - IL - 2 combination usually works very well against cancer cells grown in a lab dish.

Antibody that blocks a «do not eat» flag on cancer cells turns the immune system against all tumor types

Another approach, still early in clinical development, uses antibodies to vaccinate patients against their own tumours, pushing their immune system to attack the cancer cells.

Two clinical trials that used antibodies to block PD - 1 and PD - L1, a related molecule that binds to PD - 1, resulted in significant and long lasting responses against melanoma skin cancer, renal cell (kidney) cancer, and lung cancer.

The Stanford investigators found that when they used antibodies against CD47 to negate this «don't - eat - me» signal, macrophages were able to chew up many of these cancer cells.