Sentences with phrase «killed by chemotherapy»

Audi spent a couple of days in the hospital on supportive care after starting chemotherapy to help avoid side effects of tumor lysis, a syndrome that can occur and make the patient very ill when a large volume of tumor cells are rapidly killed by chemotherapy.

We know that those with metabolic states resulting from a high - carbohydrate diet — including high blood sugar levels, high insulin levels, and obesity — have higher rates of cancer and do more poorly during cancer treatment.13 — 16 We also know that multiple pathways that are downregulated by a ketogenic diet also render cells more susceptible to being killed by chemotherapy and radiation therapy.17

«We know that if you take these tumor cells out of a patient and put them in a petri dish, they can be killed by chemotherapy,» Beatty said.

Not exact matches

Chemotherapy works by killing cancer cells by targeting fast - dividing cells, and in most cases, kills off some healthy cells along the way, including nerve cells in the brain.

Chemotherapy drugs designed to kill tumors may actually encourage ovarian cancer by stimulating the growth of cells that give rise to the malignancy, a new study finds.

Chemotherapy works by killing off cells that are already cancerous.

By hitting breast cancer cells with a targeted therapeutic immediately after chemotherapy, researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) were able to target cancer cells during a transitional stage when they were most vulnerable, killing cells and shrinking tumors in the lab and in pre-clinical models.

Chemotherapy drugs are often designed to kill off malignant cells by damaging their DNA until they transition to a programmed death mode called apoptosis.

«Pancreatic cancer is extremely hard to treat by chemotherapy, so this finding is important because vitamin A targets the non-cancerous tissue and makes the existing chemotherapy more effective, killing the cancer cells and shrinking tumours.

Chemotherapies are potent toxins delivered into the bloodstream to kill tumor cells throughout the body by damaging DNA in rapidly dividing cells.

Dr Bernardo Tavora, lead author on the paper from the Barts Cancer Institute, said: «This work shows that sensitivity to cancer treatment is related to our own body mistakenly trying to shield the cancer from cell - killing effects caused by radiotherapy and chemotherapy.

The team at Barts Cancer Institute, part of Queen Mary University of London, have found that a molecule, called focal adhesion kinase (FAK), signals the body to repair itself after chemotherapy or radiotherapy, which kill cancer cells by damaging DNA.

A stem cell - based method created by University of California, Irvine scientists can selectively target and kill cancerous tissue while preventing some of the toxic side effects of chemotherapy by treating the disease in a more localized way.

One reason for this, explains Hai - Hui (Howard) Xue, MD, PhD, UI professor of microbiology and immunology, is that there are two kinds of tumor cells — bulk leukemia cells that can be killed by TKI drugs, and a subset of cells called leukemia stem cells, which are resistant to TKIs and to chemotherapy.

Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as ifosfamide and doxorubicin hydrochloride, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells, by stopping them from dividing, or by stopping them from spreading.

Chemotherapy is a cancer treatment that uses drugs to stop the growth of cancer cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing.

Conventional chemotherapy agents work by indiscriminately poisoning and killing rapidly - dividing cells, including cancer cells, by damaging cellular machinery and DNA.

Many chemotherapy drugs and radiation treatments actually kill cancer cells in part by raising levels of reactive oxygen.

Cancer: treatment to kill small tumours (ablation techniques), deliver chemotherapy to larger tumours (transcatheter chemo - embolization), and provide symptomatic relief for bleeding and blockages of vessels and tubes caused by cancer.

Cancer - killing chemotherapy medicines are delivered intravenously (into a vein) or taken by mouth.

Moreover, chemotherapy often kills cancer cells by increasing ROS stress.

The goal of chemotherapy for animals with lymphoma is to induce a complete remission, by killing most of the cancer cells.

These rays are used to kill cancer cells, shrink tumors, and treat cancers that are not affected by chemotherapy or safely removable by surgery.

By the act of killing off susceptible cancer cells, chemotherapy also selects for cancer cells that are resistant to treatment (drug resistance), so a drug may become less effective at each subsequent treatment.

This would be followed by chemotherapy, in hopes of killing any remaining cancer cells.

I give a patient chemotherapy an the tumor volume shrinks by 10 %, but I know the doubling time is 4 weeks, so after 3 and a half months I can claim I have killed 100 % of the tumor.

Taxotere is a chemotherapy drug that treats patients by killing cancer cells, especially those of the breast, lungs, stomach, prostate, neck, and head.