Sentences with phrase «cells after chemotherapy»

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Philippa Taylor explained why she thought it was an encouraging discovery: «There could be real benefits for some people, particularly young girls or people who are going through cancer treatment or chemotherapy and that destroys any chance of having their own eggs and growing eggs cells so if you can remove ovarian tissue, grow some egg cells outside the womb and implant them after the treatment then that could be very positive.»

Apparently cancer stem cells are the reason cancer often recurs even after chemotherapy and remission.

Approximately one year after successful treatment with cytotoxic chemotherapy and radiotherapy, patients with advanced Small Cell Lung Cancer (SCLC), which primarily affects heavy smokers, generally relapse with recurrence of tumours that are resistant to further chemotherapy.

The team found that after exposure to chemotherapy, the cells began developing physical markings usually seen in CSCs, including receptors on the cell surface to which specific proteins can bind.

Patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer will always progress after chemotherapy, so most patients go on to be treated with immunotherapy, a type of therapy that uses the body's immune system to fight cancer.

By hitting breast cancer cells with a targeted therapeutic immediately after chemotherapy, researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) were able to target cancer cells during a transitional stage when they were most vulnerable, killing cells and shrinking tumors in the lab and in pre-clinical models.

By hitting breast cancer cells with a targeted therapeutic immediately after chemotherapy, researchers were able to target cancer cells during a transitional stage when they were most vulnerable.

To test this, the researchers treated the cells with a variety of targeted therapeutics immediately after chemotherapy.

PARP inhibitors prevent cancer cells from repairing themselves after experiencing DNA damage (for example from chemotherapy or radiation).

Loss of either GSTO1 or RYR1, the researchers report, decreased the number of cancer stem cells in the primary tumor, blocked metastasis of cancer cells from the primary tumor to the lungs, decreased the duration of chemotherapy required to induce remission and increased the duration of time after chemotherapy was stopped that the mice remained tumor - free.

Cancer stem cells, a type of self - renewing cell found in tumors, are of particular interest because they are the main cell type responsible for tumor progression and for resistance to chemotherapy and radiotherapy, and therefore a major cause of tumor recurrence after treatment.

After exposure to cell - stressing x-rays or chemotherapy drugs, young mice went gray in an unexpected way.

«Many chemotherapy drugs leave a small amount of cancer stem cells that cause a renewed outbreak of the disease after a few years.

After cancer chemotherapy failed, Brown needed a stem cell transplant for his leukemia.

The team at Barts Cancer Institute, part of Queen Mary University of London, have found that a molecule, called focal adhesion kinase (FAK), signals the body to repair itself after chemotherapy or radiotherapy, which kill cancer cells by damaging DNA.

A novel mechanism — similar to how normal tissue stem cells respond to wounding — might explain why bladder cancer stem cells actively contribute to chemo - resistance after multiple cycles of chemotherapy drug treatment.

The rate of JAK2 amplification in these tissues was similar to samples obtained after chemotherapy, suggesting that JAK2 plays a supporting role in drug resistance and cancer stem cell - like features.

Gene expression profiling tests, such as Oncotype Dx, analyze the patterns of 21 different genes within cancer cells to help predict how likely it is that a women's cancer will recur within 10 years after initial treatment and how beneficial chemotherapy will be to her.

Pattern of employment and associated factors in long - term lymphoma survivors 10 years after high - dose chemotherapy with autologous stem cell transplantation.

Clinicians have historically been hesitant to treat HIV patients with stem cell transplant due to concerns that their immune systems would not effectively recover after intensive chemotherapy or that the procedure would cause excessive toxicities or infections post-transplant.

A Phase 3 Open - Label Randomized Study of Quizartinib (AC220) Monotherapy Versus Salvage Chemotherapy in Subjects with FLT3 - ITD Positive Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) Refractory To or Relapsed After First - line Treatment With or Without Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (HSCT) Consolidation

Some patients will receive chemotherapy after surgery to help treat any cancer cells that went undetected and therefore could not be removed during surgery.

Chemotherapy is usually given before or after surgery to reduce or destroy any remaining cancer cells.

A new breast cancer clinical trial is testing the idea a major reason why breast cancer returns after treatment and spreads to other parts of the body is because current chemotherapy and radiation treatments do not kill the cancer stem cells.

After the chemotherapy drug has eliminated enough of the most prolific cancer cell types, the other cells that have survived are resistant to the drug and now have less competition for space and nutrients.

Participants are being asked to take part in this study because they have advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer that has recurred or progressed after previous chemotherapy (s) including a platinum - based treatment.

It is thought that the treatment may help to «mop up» any cancer cells that are left behind after chemotherapy.

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Olaparib is a PARP inhibitor, which is already used to treat certain ovarian cancer patients and prevents damaged cancer cells from repairing themselves after chemotherapy or radiotherapy.

That happened right before my autologous stem cell transplant, after I'd done one more round of chemotherapy before my stem cells were harvested.

Audi spent a couple of days in the hospital on supportive care after starting chemotherapy to help avoid side effects of tumor lysis, a syndrome that can occur and make the patient very ill when a large volume of tumor cells are rapidly killed by chemotherapy.

If your dog is undergoing chemotherapy or radiation, it is advisable to only use supplements that improve cell strength such as homeopathic natural remedies and anti-oxidants before and after treatment in order to avoid protecting cells that are being killed during treatment.

To ensure that all the cancer cells are killed chemotherapy has been shown to be effective and usually starts 1 week after surgery.

This surgery will need to be much more aggressive to make sure they are able to get all the way to the cells that are producing the cancer, after the removal of the tumors, he will again be treated with the cryosurgery and implantation of chemotherapy slow release beads.