Sentences with phrase «cells in a tumor believed»
Identifying cancer stem cells, the small number of cells in a tumor believed to fuel its growth and spread
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Although changes in treatment methodology still have to be studied, Dr. Cripe believes it may be that the timing of various treatments is what matters, and that perhaps initially suppressing immunity could allow the virus to infect a large number of tumor cells before relieving the immunosuppression to allow the body's own T cells to fight off the tumor.
«We believe the cells lacking myoferlin are made softer in the tumor so they can't physically detach away.
The study, which appears August 3 in the peer - reviewed journal Nature Communications, showed that pairing the chemotherapy with an experimental drug eliminates the deadly population of cells believed to be responsible for repopulating the tumor.
Researchers believe it is the largest epigenetic study yet for any single cancer type and, importantly, the first to use a large cohort of primary patient tumor tissues instead of cell lines grown in the laboratory.
Cancer biologists once believed that all cells in a tumor were pretty much the same.
It is generally believed that a series of mutations in multiple genes are needed for cancer cells to become metastatic; however, recent cancer stem cell theory, which still remains as a hypothesis, predicts that metastatic tumor cells are, by definition, cancer stem cells and that these cells may exist in tumor mass even at an early stage.
LA JOLLA, CA — Scientists have long believed that glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), the most aggressive type of primary brain tumor, begins in glial cells that make up supportive tissue in the brain...
Although we believe our approaches have broad potential across multiple therapeutic areas, we are focused in oncology and have engineered our technologies to activate the immune system's natural ability to create tumor - specific cytotoxic T cells, or CTLs, to fight cancer.
Frouws» team believe the drug may boost the immune system's ability to detect and destroy circulating tumor cells in the blood.
Dr. Zihai Li, of the University of Connecticut Stem Cell Institute, said in a news release that by immunizing the host with stem cells, the researchers were are able to «fool» the immune system to believe that cancer cells are present and thus to initiate a tumor - combating immune program.