Sentences with phrase «evaded immune destruction»
Interestingly, when parental d42m1 sarcoma cells were transplanted into wild - type mice, around 20 % of recipients developed «escape» tumors which evaded immune destruction and progressed (escape clones).
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A molecule that helps cancer cells evade programmed self - destruction, an internal source of death, might also help malignant cells hide from the immune system, an external source of death.
Slusher teamed up with Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center immunologist Jonathan Powell, M.D., Ph.D., who has studied how cancer cells use different metabolic pathways to evade destruction by immune cells.
No one knows for certain how the parasite survives in its host for so long, evading destruction by the immune system.
One of the main reasons cancer remains difficult to treat is that cancer cells have developed a multitude of mechanisms that allow them to evade destruction by the immune system.