Sentences with phrase «leukemia cells need»
The drug works by blocking two important metabolic pathways that the leukemia cells need to grow and spread.
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«Ultimately, we needed 20 years to learn how to supercharge these cells to deliver anticancer activity,» says Arie Belldegrun, president and CEO of Kite Pharma in Santa Monica, California, which is assessing CAR T cells in six trials for B cell leukemia and lymphomas, and glioblastoma.
Likewise, the American Medical Association endorses donations to a public bank, unless there's a known medical reason a family member might need the umbilical cord cells, such as a leukemia diagnosis for an older child.
He needed a stem cell transplant, which is a normal treatment for leukemia, but his cancer needed to be in remission first, and the chemotherapy wasn't working.
«Further research is needed to characterize how we can potentially remove or block this protein to stop the proliferation of leukemia cells.»
He noted that before physicians and scientists begin offering SSC transplantation in patients, additional research will be needed, including whether other types of leukemia cells will also be eliminated in the cell - propagation process.
After cancer chemotherapy failed, Brown needed a stem cell transplant for his leukemia.
The approach, which is described in a paper to be published September 7 in The Journal of Experimental Medicine, could allow those in need of such transplants, including leukemia and lymphoma patients, to be treated with fewer donor stem cells while limiting potential adverse side effects.
Scientists developing new cell therapy methods for the treatment of disorders such as sickle cell disease or leukemia need to consider how their culture conditions may affect the success of their translational research.
However, recent studies suggest that the threshold of T cell responses needed to eradicate leukemia cells is different from the responses threshold required for mediating GVHD.
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators report that measuring leukemia cells that persist in patient bone marrow in the early weeks of treatment helps identify high - risk patients who need intensive therapy.
While leaving the West Coast appointment, she got a call from DeZern informing her that the most recent tests indicated Cavalancia also had some leukemia cells in her blood that needed to be treated right away.
Canine leukemia can be cell - specific, but the bottom line is that it is cancer and needs to be treated as such.