Sentences with phrase «encouraging new tumor»
Studies have shown that stress might promote cancer indirectly by weakening the immune system's anti-tumor defense or by encouraging new tumor - feeding blood vessels to form.
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Chemotherapy drugs designed to kill tumors may actually encourage ovarian cancer by stimulating the growth of cells that give rise to the malignancy, a new study finds.
The new result, she says, «will encourage people to look at tumors where it's very likely that this phenomenon is even more common.»
Research from Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey shows that the «first in human» series of vaccine injections given directly into a pancreatic cancer tumor is not only well tolerated, but also suggests an «encouraging» period of stable disease.
The team also found that these genes had different functions in promoting metastasis: One group encouraged growth of tumor cells in both breast and lungs, whereas the other only helped the new tumor thrive in the lungs.
Judah Folkman demonstrates that tumors express factors that encourage new blood vessel formation, or angiogenesis, suggesting that targeting these factors to slow or halt angiogenesis could be a viable strategy for cancer treatment.
The new findings, says Korn, will encourage the researchers to clarify the status of 53 and p14ARF in the individual tumors targeted.