Sentences with phrase «n't kill tumor cells»

«I tell people, «This is not a cancer drug; it doesn't kill tumor cells.

«However, we found that the drug does not kill tumor cells directly.

Not exact matches

Chemotherapy aimed at killing single cells may not work as efficiently against bands of spreading tumor cells, she said.

The development of targeted therapies has significantly improved the survival of melanoma patients over the last decade; however, patients often relapse because many therapies do not kill all of the tumor cells, and the remaining cells adapt to treatment and become resistant.

If a given drug cocktail kills 90 percent of the cancer cells but doesn't affect the remaining 10 percent, the resistant tumor cells can take over and cause the tumor to grow back.

Subsequent surgery on vaccinated patients has shown that the T cells are finding and killing tumor cells in the brain, but not enough of them.

Some cell types were not killed by treatment with PAL, suggesting it could be used as a specific tumor therapy.

Although other tumor suppressors exist, what makes Par - 4 so special is that it is not mutated as frequently as other known suppressors, and it's «selective» in its actions in that Par - 4 will only kill cancer cells and not normal cells.

In a four - year study conducted on the mouse model in advanced breast cancer metastasis in the eye's anterior chamber, Petty and colleagues found that the new nanoparticle not only killed tumor cells in the eye, but also extended the survival of experimental mice bearing 4T1 tumors, a cell line that is extremely difficult to kill.

The therapy not only killed cells at the primary tumor site, but also in distant metastases by «bystander» antitumor activity driven by the secreted MDA - 7 / IL - 24 protein.

So instead of taking a shotgun approach to killing a cancer cell, we are using a targeted approach that is not necessarily specific to an anatomical site, but rather the specific mutation identified in the tumor.

Dr. Levitsky: My organization within Roche, Pharma Research and Early Development (pRED), has invested in antibody engineering, not only for use of monoclonal antibodies in the established ways of delivering cell - killing agents to tumors or interrupting cell signalling pathways, but also as ways to engage and manipulate the immune system's response to tumors.

A virus not known to cause disease kills triple negative breast cancer cells and killed tumors grown from these cells in mice, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers.

Similar to CTLs, these CD4 T cells will be specific to a tumor antigen, but unlike CTLs, they generally can not kill antigen - bearing tumor cells.

The idea: trigger immune activity within the brain itself to kill remaining tumor cells — the ones neurosurgeons can't take out, which make this type of tumor so dangerous.

The featured lung cancer study, for instance, not only used synthetic vitamin E (tocopheryl) but also neglected to include any tocotrienols, which have previously been shown to kill cancer stem cells, the most malignant of all cells with a tumor.5 As noted by Dr. Andrew Saul, the study was set up to fail: 6

Scientists who are in the process of developing prototypes for potential new anticancer agents that selectively kill tumor cells by interfering with the regulation of intracellular pH, have found that alkaline treatments do NOT have the desired effect - but strongly acidic treatments do.13

Whether it turns into a tumor or not is determined by your immune system's ability to kill the cancerous cell before it multiplies and possibly becomes carcinogenic.

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

Thyroid supplements do not cure the disease or kill the tumor cells causing the problem.

Since the most common cause of death is not the tumor, but the spread of cancer to the lungs, chemotherapy is used to make sure that all of the cancer cells are killed (Adriamycin (doxorubicin) and cisplatin or carboplatin).