Sentences with phrase «from ovarian tumors»

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The study published in Cancer Cell shows that exosomes from tumor cells of breast cancer (and other tumor types such as ovarian and endometrial) are different in size and composition than those of healthy cells.

P: We found discodermolide [a drug from Discodermia, a sponge found in the Caribbean, the Bahamas, and the Gulf of Mexico], and it's gone through phase I clinical trials for treatment of solid tumors such as ovarian, pancreatic, breast, colon, or lung cancers.

New research from George Vasmatzis, Ph.D., of the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic, finds liquid biopsies from blood tests and DNA sequencing can detect a return of ovarian cancer long before a tumor reappears.

A section of a tumor organoid grown from cells derived from a patient with high - grade serous ovarian cancer (left) and a mini-tumor treated with ReACp53, resulting in extensive cancer cell death.

In some cases such as ovarian cancer, however, drug - free intervals are needed to allow patient recovery from side effects, during which tumors can sometimes begin to grow again or develop resistance to the drugs being used.

In their research, scientists at Rutgers created animal models that closely resemble the cancerous tumors found in women with ovarian cancer by injecting tumor tissues obtained from gynecological cancer patients treated at the Cancer Institute into laboratory mice.

The team collected tumors from 68 women affected with ovarian and uterine CSs to try to determine the molecular basis of the tumor's aggressive behavior.

VIC - 008 is a fusion protein combining an immune - activating protein from the tuberculosis bacteria with a small antibody fragment targeting mesothelin, a protein expressed in several types of tumor — including mesothelioma, pancreatic and ovarian cancer.

Notably, the researchers found that, using their methods, highly reactive TILs could be obtained from some 90 % of the ovarian cancer patients whose tumor samples they examined.

[4] Sabbatini P, Tsuji T, Ferran L, Ritter E, Sedrak C, Tuballes K, Jungbluth AA, Ritter G, Aghajanian C, Bell - McGuinn K, Hensley ML, Konner J, Tew W, Spriggs DR, Hoffman EW, Venhaus R, Pan L, Salazar AM, Diefenbach CM, Old LJ, Gnjatic S. Phase I trial of overlapping long peptides from a tumor self - antigen and poly - ICLC shows rapid induction of integrated immune response in ovarian cancer patients.

The earliest and one of the most striking came from observations that the presence of infiltrating T cells (called «tumor - infiltrating lymphocytes,» or TILs) in ovarian tumors is positively and strongly associated with improved survival of patients with ovarian cancer [1].

Their theory was first confirmed with ovarian cancer cell lines and then the Peter / Lengyel team tested HGMA2 protein levels in tumor samples from 100 patients with ovarian cancer.

Surveillance of the tumor mutanome by T cells during progression from primary to recurrent ovarian cancer.

These interests grew from studies of paraneoplastic neurologic disorders (PNDs), a group of diseases thought to arise when tumors — typically breast, ovarian, or lung cancers — start making proteins normally only made by the brain.

iPSC - NKs themselves have already shown efficacy in the battle against leukemia and HIV infection [4, 5] and so researchers from the laboratory of Dan S. Kaufman (University of Minnesota, USA) aimed to assess their anti-tumorigenic capabilities against ovarian tumors [6].

The approach developed by the MGH team starts with the engineered protein, which in this case fuses an antibody fragment targeting a protein called mesothelin — expressed on the surface of such tumors as mesothelioma, ovarian cancer and pancreatic cancer — to a protein from the tuberculosis bacteria that stimulates the activity of dendritic and other immune cells.

Given the well - established role of steroid hormones in breast cancer etiology for postmenopausal women, these findings may have important health implications» Tumor growth from these hormone imbalances is also evident «A dramatic increase in estrogen - dependent malignant diseases, such as ovarian, corpus uteri, breast, testicular and prostate cancers has been recognized.

I recently had an emergency oophorectomy due to ovarian torsion from multiple cysts and a tumor on my left ovary.