Sentences with phrase «destroyed by the cancer»

This treatment is a way of giving high doses of chemotherapy and replacing blood - forming cells destroyed by the cancer treatment.

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A lot of cancer patients are killed by an infection caused by the chemo destroying their immune system..

Hasker's third proposition is that for the problem of divine non-intervention to be a real problem, «we must be able to identify specific kinds of cases in which God morally ought to intervene but does not» Many critics of (traditional) theism probably already have a more or less vague list of such cases, which might include genocidal events, such as the Nazi holocaust and the Rwandan massacre; wars; large - scale natural disasters; conditions of chronic poverty, in which millions of children die from starvation or are permanently stunted because of inadequate protein; the sexual molestation of children, which often leaves them psychologically scarred for the rest of their lives; death preceded by long, painful illnesses, such as cancer or AIDS, or by mind - destroying conditions, such as Alzheimer's disease; and the kinds of events described by Dostoyevski, such as the soldier using his pistol to get a mother's baby to giggle with delight and then blowing its brains out.

Curcumin in turmeric has the ability to modulate genetic activity and expression — both by destroying cancer cells and by promoting healthy cell function.

Corruption, a very corrosive and ravaging cancer that has virtually destroyed the weak fabric of our society can not be defeated outside observance of the rule of law and by trampling on citizens» rights and cherished freedoms.»

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Inspired by his own bout of leukemia to try to find a better cancer treatment, retired broadcasting station owner Kanzius guessed that as an alternative to chemotherapy, he could inject tumors with metal ions, then use radio waves to heat the metal and destroy cancerous cells.

Pembrolizumab, or pembro, an immunotherapy drug that unmasks cancer cells and allows the body's own immune system to help destroy tumors, appears to be safe in treating lung cancers, according to a study by Cancer Treatment Centers of America ® (CTCA) at Western Regional Medical Center (Western) in Goodyear, Arcancer cells and allows the body's own immune system to help destroy tumors, appears to be safe in treating lung cancers, according to a study by Cancer Treatment Centers of America ® (CTCA) at Western Regional Medical Center (Western) in Goodyear, ArCancer Treatment Centers of America ® (CTCA) at Western Regional Medical Center (Western) in Goodyear, Arizona.

Now the mechanism has been revealed, opening the way to using similar molecules in cancer treatments, to protect healthy tissue while tumours are destroyed by freezing.

The magnetic nanoparticles are excited by the applied field and begin to get hot, heating and potentially destroying the surrounding cancer tissue.

The new approaches might completely destroy cancers that right now can only be delayed by drugs.

By mixing the gel with a cancer - killing drug and injecting it directly into the tumour, the cancer can be destroyed from the inside.

On the flip side, turning up expression of these genes or their pathways could help researchers grow new intestinal tissue to replace tissue destroyed by diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease or radiation treatment for cancer.

Metastasis, or cancer spread by the formation of tumors at new sites, is generally what makes cancers deadly because surgery and other treatments are unlikely to find and destroy every cancer cell.

Summers and the research team, led by Dr. Mike Jensen at the Ben Towne Center for Childhood Cancer Research at Seattle Children's Research Institute, are opening PLAT - 04 after discovering that of the patients who relapsed in the PLAT - 02 trial, approximately 40 percent of them relapsed with a leukemia that evolved to circumvent the CAR T cells that were reprogrammed to detect and destroy cCancer Research at Seattle Children's Research Institute, are opening PLAT - 04 after discovering that of the patients who relapsed in the PLAT - 02 trial, approximately 40 percent of them relapsed with a leukemia that evolved to circumvent the CAR T cells that were reprogrammed to detect and destroy cancercancer.

Rather, cancer patients — whose eggs might be destroyed by chemotherapy or radiotherapy — will benefit the most if this still - experimental procedure becomes practical.

If these could be targeted to tumours — by attaching them to antibodies that recognise cancer cells, for instance — it would then be possible to destroy the malignant cells» DNA using lower doses of radiation or drugs.

Previous cancer studies had shown that by injecting tumors with magnetic nanoparticles made of iron oxide — «essentially rust, with well - tuned magnetic properties,» Anikeeva says — then exposing them to rapidly alternating magnetic fields, excited nanoparticles can be used to heat and destroy cancer tumors while leaving surrounding, healthy tissue intact.

Researchers have for the first time shown that as many as 1.3 million cases of cancer a year may one day be successfully treated or even prevented by targeting and destroying the viruses that cause them.

«Although taking out FAK from blood vessels won't destroy the cancer by itself, it can remove the barrier cancer uses to protect itself from treatment.»

A patent application for a drug that could destroy the deadly childhood disease known as acute lymphoblastic leukemia — and potentially other cancers as well — has been submitted by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories, the University of Maryland and the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.

Researchers have witnessed — for the first time — cancer cells being targeted and destroyed from the inside, by an organo - metal compound discovered by the University of Warwick.

«Since MCR works by targeting specific DNA sequences, in cases where diseased cells have altered DNA as in HIV - infected individuals or some types of cancer, MCR - based methods should be able to distinguish diseased from healthy cells and then be used to selectively either destroy or modify the diseased cells.»

The resulting compound works by a unique mechanism of action unlike any drug currently used in the treatment of cancer, and it destroys replicating and nonreplicating malignant cells while minimizing damage to surrounding, healthy cells.

Radiation treatment, also known as radiotherapy, destroys cancer by focusing high - energy rays on the cancer cells.

Some vaccines prevent cancer by destroying invading toxins or foreign substances that cause infection.

«Cancer cells by definition have high mutation rates and genomic instability even at the very earliest stages, so you could imagine building a virus that could destroy even the earliest lesions and be used as a prophylactic,» says O'Shea.

As cancer cells are destroyed by radiation, they release their proteins into the bloodstream, clearly revealing their identities as cancer cells and, as a result, attracting the attention of the immune system.

Adoptive Cell Transfer (ACT) is a form of immunotherapy that targets tumors specifically and potently by utilizing large numbers of a patient's own immune cells to target and destroy cancer cells.

Molecular surgical tools, guided by molecular computers and injected into the blood stream could find and destroy cancer cells or invading bacteria, unclog arteries, or provide oxygen when the circulation is impaired.

A combination of complementary immunotherapy drugs brentuximab vedotin (Adcetris ®) and nivolumab (Opdivo ®) destroyed most cancer cells in 64 percent of patients with recurrent Hodgkin lymphoma, according to the results of an early - phase clinical trial led by Catherine M. Diefenbach, MD, assistant professor of medicine and director of the Clinical Lymphoma Program.

CD8 + T - cells (or killer T - cells) are a kind of immune cell that specializes in destroying cells that have been hijacked by viruses or by cancer.

Lymph nodes are small glands located throughout the body that filter bacteria, viruses — even cancer cells — that are then destroyed by special white blood cells.

In cancer, Tregs are recruited by tumors and prevent other types of T cells, including cytotoxic T cells (also called CD8 cells) from attacking and destroying cancer cells.

According to some studies, sulforaphane may also have the potential to stop cancer growth by destroying cells that are already damaged (R, R).

Cancer cells are always present in the human body, however they are typically recognized by the immune system and destroyed before they cause any problems.

BHT and BHA, both suspected of causing cancer and brain damage, are often added to these oils to replace vitamin E and other natural preservatives destroyed by heat.

This is important because some breast cancer stem cells may not be destroyed by radiation and chemotherapy.

Antioxidants fight disease by destroying free radicals, which can cause cell damage that results in the mutations that often lead to arthritis, dementia, and even cancer.

During the course of treatment, your veterinarian will repeat many blood tests to see if the treatment is destroying the cancer and to make sure the internal organs are not being damaged by the chemotherapy.

Ideally, the affected limb must be amputated to alleviate the source of the cancer and the painful area of bone, followed by chemotherapy to destroy any cancerous cells that may have escaped into the bloodstream.

The antioxidants in blueberries boost the dog's health and reduce the risk of illnesses by destroying the free radicals in the body, which are responsible for cell damage which often leads serious diseases like cancer, heart diseases, and various other chronic and life threatening illnesses.

Antioxidants protect canine health by destroying dangerous free radicals, which are highly charged particles thought to be responsible for everything from cancer to heart disease to the standard ailments of old age.

Every nephron in the kidney is worth saving, and each cancer cell that grows is one more that has to be destroyed by tough chemotherapy!

They help prevent cell and tissue injury by scavenging and destroying free radicals, and play a fundamental role in cancer prevention and control.