Sentences with phrase «ovarian cancer cells called»

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Mutations in these genes have been associated with one of the deadliest types of ovarian cancer, called clear cell carcinoma.

Working in cell cultures and mice, researchers at Johns Hopkins have found that an experimental drug called fostamatinib combined with the chemotherapy drug paclitaxel may overcome ovarian cancer cells» resistance to paclitaxel.

In order to find out how and why ovarian cancer cells grow and take on such lethal characteristics, Dr. Shepherd and his team grow the cancer cells in 3D structures, called «spheroids» — the same way the cancer cells grow in patients.

For the new study, described in the October 23rd issue of Nature Communications, scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston collected tissue samples containing normal cells, ovarian cancers, metastases that had spread elsewhere, and small cancers found in the fallopian tubes, which included single cell layers of cancer called «p53 signatures» and serous tubal intraepithelial carcinoma, or STIC leCancer Center and Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston collected tissue samples containing normal cells, ovarian cancers, metastases that had spread elsewhere, and small cancers found in the fallopian tubes, which included single cell layers of cancer called «p53 signatures» and serous tubal intraepithelial carcinoma, or STIC leCancer Institute in Boston collected tissue samples containing normal cells, ovarian cancers, metastases that had spread elsewhere, and small cancers found in the fallopian tubes, which included single cell layers of cancer called «p53 signatures» and serous tubal intraepithelial carcinoma, or STIC lecancer called «p53 signatures» and serous tubal intraepithelial carcinoma, or STIC lesions.

The earliest and one of the most striking came from observations that the presence of infiltrating T cells (called «tumor - infiltrating lymphocytes,» or TILs) in ovarian tumors is positively and strongly associated with improved survival of patients with ovarian cancer [1].

The approach developed by the MGH team starts with the engineered protein, which in this case fuses an antibody fragment targeting a protein called mesothelin — expressed on the surface of such tumors as mesothelioma, ovarian cancer and pancreatic cancer — to a protein from the tuberculosis bacteria that stimulates the activity of dendritic and other immune cells.

In 80 percent of women, by the time ovarian cancer is diagnosed, it has spread to the pad of fat cells, called the omentum.

Red foods like red bell peppers and tomatoes contain a phytochemical called lycopene, which may have an anti-inflammatory affect on the cells lining the heart and blood vessels, and may reduce the risk of developing prostate cancer among other cancers such as breast, lung, bladder, ovarian, and colon.