Sentences with phrase «kill tumor cells while»

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.

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Special strains of the adenovirus, the researchers say, have been altered to deploy anticancer genes within tumors, killing cancer cells while leaving healthy ones unscathed.

Both strains spread through the tumors, infecting and killing the cancer stem cells while largely avoiding other tumor cells.

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 cWhile 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 cwhile also killing many healthy cells.

Bavituximab's presumed mode of action is to block immunosuppression while activating a tumor - killing T - cell immune response.

Today's effective treatment options can actually cure the disease by killing off the abnormal tumor cells while leaving the normal thyroid cells undamaged, resulting in a normal life span for many affected cats.

While this virus was hypothesized to kill osteosarcoma cells through its replication, we have recently recognized the possibility that the virus stimulates an immune response to tumor, in addition to itself.