Sentences with phrase «kill cancer cells in the body»

Depending on the type of cancer, a medical oncologist may administer chemotherapy drugs or immunotherapy to shrink tumors and kill cancer cells in the body.

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Her doctor suggested Erbitux — a proven cancer drug that targets cancer cells exclusively, unlike conventional chemotherapies that more crudely kill all fast - growing cells in the body — and Aucoin went to a clinic to begin treatment.

As a physics teacher, I teach the therapeutic effects of gamma radiation in radiotherapy, along with the associated dangers (radiation can cause cells to become cancerous as well as kill cells that are already cancerous), but a common misconception among students is that cancer cells are rather like viruses or bacteria, a sort of alien cell that has entered the body, growing out of control with little relation to the surrounding cells.

Cyclophosphamide, Doxorubicin, and most chemotherapy drugs for cancer — these drugs kill cells in the mother's body and may harm the baby.

Most Chemotherapy Drugs for Cancer: Since they kill cells in the mother's body, they may harm the baby as well.

«Most cancers kill their victims by metastasis, wherein cancerous cells move from the primary site to other places in the body.

The cells are then reprogramed to hunt and potentially kill cancer cells in the patient's body.

Since the thyroid absorbs nearly all of the iodine in the human body, radioactive iodine given to a patient will concentrate in thyroid cancer cells, killing them with little effect on the rest of the body.

The naturally occurring arsenic kills human cells, leading first to skin scarring and then, as it slowly builds up in the body, to brain damage, heart disease and cancer.

The sponge is implanted under the skin, and is designed to recruit and reprogram a patient's own immune cells «on site,» instructing them to travel through the body, home in on cancer cells, then kill them.

Then they go around the body and kill the cancer cells in the distant site that has not been irradiated with the light.»

While radiotherapy can precisely target just the tumor site, systemic chemotherapy spreads a wide net, sending drugs speeding throughout the entire body in an attempt to kill cancer cells while also killing many healthy cells.

As I explain in my new book, Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof That You Can Heal Yourself, the body is equipped with natural self - repair mechanisms that can kill stray cancer cells, fight infections, and even slow the aging process.

Mom knows as well as I do that when the amygdala gets triggered and the body is in stress response, the body's natural self - repair mechanisms, the ones responsible for fixing broken proteins, killing cancer cells, fighting infection, and retarding aging, get flipped off.

Here's why... Reason # 1 — Vegetable oils usually contain deadly trans fats, even if non-hydrogenated You already KNOW that trans fats are deadly, so I won't go into all of the science as to why trans fats kill you and DAMAGE your cell membranes in your body... leading to all sorts of scary health problems like cancer, obesity, Alzheimer's, heart disease, and more.

In fact, there are specific plant compounds that actually kill cancer cells without harming the healthy cells of the body.

Hydrogen peroxide is used in such a way to naturally boost the ability of the body to kill off cancer cells or any other cells that are suspect.

Both items kill microbes but the MSM also helps get the colloidal silver inside of any cancer cells by opening the ports of any cancer cells in the body.

The most powerful anti-cancer therapy he knows is to undertake a 7 - 10 day fast once a year (distilled water only) to put any cancer or neo-cancer cell in your body under extreme metabolic stress, and hopefully kill it.

Dr. Eugene Fine from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine claims that the ketone bodies can kill cancer due to their capacity to stop the energy production in the cancer cells.

And as I teach in Mind Over Medicine, the body has natural self - repair mechanisms that can kill cancer cells, fight infection, repair broken proteins, and retard aging.

The former kills malignant cancer cells by exposing them to high levels of radiation while the latter uses drugs to obliterate cancer cells by targeting all rapidly dividing cells in the body.

Harvested cancer - free cells are then reintroduced into the patient after total body radiation is used to kill residual cancer cells left in the body.