Sentences with phrase «attacks on cancer»

Women in nearly half the states in this country have faced political attacks on cancer screenings, birth control, and other basic care.

Even novel attacks on cancer can end up as an arms race.

Investigators have repeatedly touted the drug as a potential lynchpin in immuno - oncology, focusing on an enzyme that suppresses the immune cells Opdivo and a whole new class of PD - 1 / L1 checkpoints are designed to unleash in an attack on cancer cells.

«Over the years, we've developed the theory of «sequential cytotoxicity,» which simply means you give an initial attack on the cancer cell and then you give a second chemical attack,» Dimmock said.

Treatments aimed at revving up the immune system's attack on the cancer may be the most promising approach to cancer therapy since combination chemotherapy.

But when PD - 1 binds to proteins called PD - L1 and PD - L2 on the surface of certain cancer cells, the T cells essentially become paralyzed: the immune attack on cancer is called off.

The immunotherapy stimulates an immune attack on cancer cells, whereas the chemotherapy drugs directly damage tumors.

Not exact matches

Weeks later, Yee realized that he didn't have the equipment he needed to pluck out of Ziskin's blood the rare (perhaps one in 100,000) T cells that could identify the subtle peptide markers on the surface of her cancer cells and attack the disease.

The treatment is a type of so - called CAR T - cell therapy — taking a patient's own immune cells, called T cells, genetically manipulating them to attack specific proteins on cancer, and infusing them back into the patient.

Shkreli, who was arrested Thursday morning on securities fraud charges, has effectively waved a red flag for months in front of federal prosecutors, keeping himself in the media glare with a hugely controversial price hike of a drug that benefits AIDS patients, pregnant women and cancer patients, attacking his critics, including presidential contender Hillary Clinton, and lighting up Twitter with outrageous statements.

Both have passed on, with Turkel dying of a heart attack in 2009 and Kail passing away from lung cancer in 2013, but their reputation as the industry's most revered sales duo remains intact.

If I lost a child to cancer or I was injured on September 11 attacks I may share his views, but for now I'm living an average life with many good days and a few bad days.

In a chapter on «Stigma» Frank notes that no one called his heart attack «h.a.,» but many took refuge in cancer as «c.a.» The patient responds by seeking to be invisible.

But from a hypochondriac who worries about having a heart attack on the freeway, and the inevitable cancer 24/7.

That the issue at stake is a spiritual one is evident in the religious imagery that pervades Callahan's account of technological medicine: that the war on death is a search for «immortality»; that the dying patient might be «saved»; that medicine is seen as «omnipotent, holding life and death wholly in its hands»; that a lobbyist equates heart attacks, cancer, and strokes with sin (interesting rhetoric in the public sphere, but I'll save that discussion for another day).

I though that as readers of my articles on MomsTEAM are likely to have an interest in this subject, as I'm sure every one of you has been affected by an overweight relative or friend who is dealing with cancer, heart attack, stroke, and / or diabetes, and want to keep your kids from having those kinds of health problems.

It's time for the liberals to end their politically motivated attacks on the Komen Foundation and let them get back to what the do best: raise money and awareness for breast cancer,» Long said.

A 42 - year - old New Jersey woman, Marcy Borders, who became known as the «Dust Lady» after being captured on camera in the aftermath of the 9/11 attack on New York City has died after a battle with stomach cancer, her brother confirmed.

Ed Miliband sought to bounce back at prime minister's questions by attacking David Cameron on welfare support for cancer patients.

Democrats and liberal groups have successfully attacked Heck on social security privatization and a vote in the state Senate against a bill that would have required insurance companies to cover a vaccine for cervical cancer.

«This bill's attacks on Planned Parenthood would create an undue burden on women's fundamental constitutional right to reproductive health care, while placing unconstitutional conditions on federal dollars that fund vital services like breast cancer screenings, STD tests, and more.»

Taub's first grant, in 2005, specified that the money would be used to fund research related to cancers caused by the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center.

Peeler spent the runoff digging through Sanford's voting record as a member of Congress and releasing a series of blistering attacks on issues like breast cancer funding and Sanford's alleged lack of support for the military and veterans.

«The governor's budget is packed full of sneak attacks on services to cancer patients, New Yorkers with mental illness and developmental disabilities, and troubled children,» Brynien said.

On its own, this immune response had no immediate effect in the fight against the utilized breast tumors, but in combination with the ADC it proved itself effective in attacking cancer cells in mice, resulting in the complete cure of the majority of mice receiving the combination therapy.

One way cancer cells do this is by expressing a protein ligand that binds to a receptor on the T cells to prevent the T cell from recognizing and attacking the cancer cell.

The protein puts the immune system's brakes on, keeping its T cells from recognizing and attacking cancer cells, said Dr. Antoni Ribas, the study's principal investigator and a professor of medicine in the division of hematology - oncology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

Targeted cancer treatments are designed to attack molecules produced by mutations, but if the targeted mutation occurs on an evolutionary branch and not the trunk, the treatment will fail as other branches dominate and treatment resistant cells spread.

Although some cancers — particularly those that are rife with mutations like lung cancer or melanoma — create more tangible targets on the surface of cells for the immune system to recognize and attack, other malignancies such as prostate and pancreatic cancers have proved more intransigent.

Most cancer vaccines developed to date have been designed to recognize and attack a specific known molecule — such as a cell - surface receptor — that is likely to be found on cancerous cells in any patient with that type of tumor.

Two advocacy groups joined with cancer patients and doctors yesterday to launch a sweeping attack on human gene patents.

Several researchers interviewed, after asking to go off the record, erupted in venomous attacks on Duesberg, saying that aneuploidy is the result of cancer, not the cause.

The drug's mechanism of action was entirely new: Instead of attacking cancer cells (like chemo), or indiscriminately revving up the immune system (like IL - 2), ipilimumab blocked a single receptor on one type of immune cell.

Because CTLA - 4 acts like a brake on the immune system, it prevents the body's defenses from attacking cancer cells.

«Sleep disorders, such as sleep apnoea, impact on a wide variety of chronic conditions, potentially leading to their development or worsening them, including diabetes, heart attacks, strokes and possibly even cancer.

Other possible ways to attack pancreatic cancer cells focus on taking away their ability to hide from the immune system.

In terms of diagnostics, it has six tests on the market, based on research in Iceland, that aim to measure risk of diseases such as heart attack and prostate cancer.

The researchers are now looking at how ICOS signals can be altered to diminish autoimmune disorders and augmented for more effective vaccine development, and are beginning research on how ICOS signaling may benefit Chimeric Antigen Receptor - T cell (CAR - T) therapies, which involves engineering of patient's own immune cells to recognize and attack their cancers.

Antonio Russo of Palermo University in Italy notes that antibodies that neutralize PD - 1 have successfully put lung cancer in check, boding well for a CRISPR - enabled attack on the protein.

The reason is that some cancer cells remain even after the strongest conditioning, and the graft's attack on the host can mop up the stragglers.

T - FORCE Two T cells (orange) attack a cancer cell (blue), using special receptors to zero in on the cancer.

Over the past decade, scientists have linked soot and other tiny particles produced by combustion to heart attacks, asthma, and lung cancer, spurring a clampdown on fine particle pollution by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

«Gene circuit switches on inside cancer cells, triggers immune attack: Advance may open new pathways for cancer immunotherapy.»

It also may have helped several others by boosting the power of a new type of cancer drug that uses a different mechanism to unleash an immune attack on the tumor.

«Review on aspirin to treat and prevent heart attacks and commentary on aspirin to prevent colorectal and other cancers.»

Working with Boise State biology professor Cheryl Jorcyk, he is looking for ways to put antibodies on the surface of the liposome, allowing them to recognize and attack cancer cells that are circulating in the body.

In our urgent mission to save lives, we attack pancreatic cancer on all fronts: research, clinical initiatives, patient services and advocacy.

The drugs, ipilimumab (Yervoy ®) and nivolumab (Opdivo ®), made by Bristol - Myers Squibb (BMS), are two immune checkpoint inhibitors that «release the brakes» on the immune system, allowing it to mount a stronger and more effective attack against cancer.

Among those experts, the consensus was that while nanotechnology, which in cancer treatment uses vanishingly minuscule particles to launch sneak attacks on tumors, may have promise for the future, that future has always felt just out of reach.

Every day, more than 30 scientists focus on new research therapies and innovative treatments to attack the fourth most common cancer among men.