Sentences with phrase «assess tumor response»
Even more nerve - racking for the patients was the fact that typically six weeks would pass before he could assess tumor response.
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Dr. Gnjatic's research focuses on human antigen - specific immune responses to tumor antigens, in an attempt to define new targets for the development of cancer immunotherapies, assess the efficacy of these immunotherapies, and learn why they may fail.
In this study, researchers assessed the outcomes of 280 prostate cancer (Cap) patients, and reviewed the DNA «fingerprints» of each patient's tumor (using the patient's initial diagnostic core biopsy) to determine if gene copy number alterations (CNAs), or breaks in CFSs, were related to a less positive response to treatment.
Dr. Liang Cao and his team at the National Cancer Institute investigated whether this biomarker could be used to identify patients with HPV16 - or HPV18 - positive metastatic cervical cancer and to assess the patient's response to tumor - infiltrating lymphocyte (TIL) immunotherapy.