Sentences with phrase «particular tumor»

The heritable component of cancer is quite low, notwithstanding the discovery of genes for particular tumors.

Therapies based on immune cells, which target particular tumor molecules, are more specific, but they are not effective against a variety of tumors.

«The idea is to mobilize an immune response that will target the tumor very broadly, hitting a variety of markers including some that would be found only on that particular tumor,» Tanyi said.

«This finding gives us a clue as to why these particular tumors are growing inappropriately,» said co-author Zachary Reitman, M.D., Ph.D., a research associate at Duke.

The study also suggests how ovarian cancer treatments can be tailored based on the metabolic profile of a particular tumor.

Narrowing the treatment to a particular tumor cell type makes for a more effective — and less harmful — oncolytic approach.

«You can imagine a patient has a particular tumor.

«This effort moves the community beyond the barriers of most previous molecular studies that focused exclusively on immune cells in the tumor microenvironment, providing a broader picture of how our bodies and immune system respond to the challenges of the presence of a particular tumor,» Dumeaux says.

Sen. McCain's doctors will likely look at the genetics of his tumor and its mutations, and try to understand whether a personalized treatment option would be a good fit based on what's driving his particular tumor.

Because of the toxicity of chemotherapy, no patient wants to find out by trial and error how his or her particular tumor will respond to a given drug.

When the particles reached the tumor itself, they released their chemo payload in a process related to that particular tumor cell's metabolism.

However, this particular tumor showed an amplification of Ret, and as it happened, the drug bank had a single drug, sunitinib, that was known to inhibit Ret.

Correct treatment depends on obtaining a small biopsy sample to identify the particular tumor type, determining if the tumor has spread to the lungs or lymph nodes, and obtaining detailed dental radiographs to show how far the tumor has spread locally.