Sentences with phrase «to attack tumor cells»

A twofold treatment brings together boron and neutrons to create a lethal radiation that can attack tumor cells without damaging normal tissues in the process

The «quarterback» cells show the defensive «killer» T cells (CD8 + cells) who to attack and these cells then directly attack tumor cells and send out an alert system to engage other cells in the fight against the cancer.

Once these targets are uncovered, we can then administer T cells that are genetically programmed to attack tumor cells with the new targets.»

Researchers from the University and University Hospital Basel have now for the first time successfully combined such an antibody - drug conjugate with a therapy that stimulates the immune system to attack tumor cells.

They also found that more of the drug was available to attack tumor cells.

According to Dr. Cripe, the study suggests that some patients could respond to therapy even if their tumors aren't very infectable by the virus, provided their immune systems were stimulated by the viral therapy to attack the tumor cells.

Modern medicine therefore aims to stimulate the patient's immune system to attack the tumor cells.

By introducing a particular strain of bacteria into the digestive tracts of mice with melanoma, researchers at the University of Chicago were able to boost the ability of the animal's immune systems to attack tumor cells.

Zelig Eshhar and colleagues first use the T - body approach, employing chimeric receptors composed of an antibody recognition unit linked to T cell activation domains, to redirect T cells to recognize and attack tumor cells.

Preliminary evidence from the small clinical trial, led by William Gillanders, MD, also suggests that the vaccine primed the patients» immune systems to attack tumor cells and helped slow the cancer's progression.

By blocking a protein that normally restrains the body's natural ability to attack tumor cells, James P. Allison (University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center) devised a fundamentally new strategy for treating malignancies.