Sentences with phrase «kills cells in the pancreas»

Suppose it kills cells in the pancreas or in another organ?

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The study's findings, published in the journal Cancer Research, are the first to use these combined agents as an immune stimulator and may have the potential to kill cancerous cells in solid tumors, including some of the most aggressive cancers that form in the lung and pancreas.

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Those antibodies trigger the killing of cells in the pancreas.

Obesity leads to insulin resistance, and our blood sugars start to go up, so our pancreas starts pumping out more insulin to try to force more sugar into our muscles, and eventually the fat spills over into the pancreas as well, killing off the insulin - producing cells, and we've got diabetes — in which case we may have to start injecting insulin at high levels to overcome the insulin resistance, and these high insulin levels promote cancer.