Sentences with phrase «more traditional chemotherapy»

Not exact matches

Immunotherapy differs from more traditional cancer treatments, such as surgery (cutting malignant cells out of the body), chemotherapy and radiation (poisoning the deadly mutants), and even the newer, more precise molecular drugs that attempt to jam the protein signals that tell tumor cells to keep dividing and conquering.

Other traditional treatments, such as chemotherapy or surgery, act more like sledgehammers.

Unlike traditional chemotherapy that kills rapidly dividing cells, both malignant and healthy, GO was designed to kill more selectively.

Rich and colleagues are now testing in mice whether combining Zika with traditional cancer treatments such as chemotherapy is more effective than either treatment by itself.

Combining immunotherapies directed at the patient with more traditional therapies, like chemotherapy and radiation, which are directed at the tumor, is another area of intense scientific interest.

Other more traditional options include radiation and topical chemotherapy.

Over the last few years, immunotherapy has become the fourth arm in treating cancer, along with more traditional treatments such as surgery, radiation therapy and chemotherapy.