Sentences with phrase «keep their cancer at bay for»

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Longo and Guevara - Aguirre decided to work together on a survey that could confirm both their suspicions — for Longo, that the mutation revealed the secrets of longer life, and for Guevara - Aguirre, that his Laron patients had something that indeed kept cancer at bay.

Concerned that the drug by itself might not keep his aggressive cancer at bay, Wartman opted for a second transplant — this time with stem cells isolated from peripheral blood from an unrelated donor.

One key weapon against cancer is to supercharge T - cells — the foot - soldiers of the immune system — to better detect and kill tumors, and a new trial at the Children's Research Institute has delivered promising results, keeping cases of Hodgkin's lymphoma at bay for years at a time.

Still, the results of this effort were promising, because genomic information was used to keep cancer at bay, if only for a short time.

But for scientists who develop therapeutic viruses (to, for example, target cancer cells or correct gene deficiencies) a more important question is: How do we keep people's natural immune responses at bay?

For those of us who (hopefully) don't smoke or have cancer, a diet rich in vitamin C and some occasional supplements will likely just help keep inflammation at bay.