Sentences with phrase «kill the tumor cells causing»

Thyroid supplements do not cure the disease or kill the tumor cells causing the problem.

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A heckler interrupted Vice President Joe Biden during a speech on Saturday, alleging the VP's son Beau Biden was killed by a tumor caused by radiation from cell phones, which prompted boos from the audience.

If a given drug cocktail kills 90 percent of the cancer cells but doesn't affect the remaining 10 percent, the resistant tumor cells can take over and cause the tumor to grow back.

In laboratory studies, daratumumab caused the targeted killing of CD38 - carrying tumor cells by several distinct and potent mechanisms, including some that involve the immune system.

The tumor suppressor p53 does all it can to prevent oncogenes from transforming normal cells into tumor cells by killing defective cells or causing them to become inactive.

Increasing expression of a chemical cytokine called LIGHT in mice with colon cancer activated the immune system's natural cancer - killing T - cells and caused primary tumors and metastatic tumors in the liver to shrink.

«We demonstrated that delivery of a therapeutic immune - stimulating cytokine caused T - cells to traffic to tumors and to become activated tumor - killing cells,» Maker said.

«Most chemotherapies kill cancer cells through apoptosis, and the cancer cells that escape apoptosis are the root cause of chemotherapy resistance and tumor progression,» said Chi.

Blocking the enzyme causes the cancerous cells to die, so the company is working with a telomerase inhibitor, imetelstat, that it hopes will kill tumor cells while leaving healthy ones unharmed.

When the T cells kill the tumor cells, they trigger inflammation, and that causes the fever.

A virus not known to cause disease kills triple negative breast cancer cells and killed tumors grown from these cells in mice, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers.

An ideal chemotherapeutic agent is expected to specifically kill tumor cells, cause the least amount of undesirable side effect, and leave normal cells unharmed.

This process activates the CD8 T cell and causes it to divide, creating millions of CTLs to kill tumor cells that bear that specific tumor antigen, including neoantigens.

We believe that when G100 is administered with mechanisms that kill, or lyse, tumor cells (such as radiation), it may cause dendritic cells near the lysed tumor to activate and capture the wide range of released endogenous tumor antigens.

Thanks to I - chlor's photosensitizing property, laser light of specific wavelengths applied to a tumor containing it causes cancer cells to overheat, killing them without affecting normal cells.

This causes what's called reversible electroporation, where these cells will transiently increase their ability to be permeable to foreign compounds, and so you're able to get the cancer drugs into the tumors and kill them.

Since the most common cause of death is not the tumor, but the spread of cancer to the lungs, chemotherapy is used to make sure that all of the cancer cells are killed (Adriamycin (doxorubicin) and cisplatin or carboplatin).