Sentences with phrase «prevent cancer tumors»

It also contains trace minerals that can prevent and reverse serious disease: selenium has been shown to prevent cancer tumors; magnesium supports heart, joint and neurological health; and iodine.

Trace minerals can prevent and reverse serious disease: selenium has been shown to prevent cancer tumors; magnesium supports heart, joint and neurological health; and iodine regulates thyroid function.

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Mogroside V has been found in research to have the ability to inhibit tumor growth in pancreatic cancer by interfering with the rapid dividing of cancer cells, preventing angiogenesis (blood flow to the tumor), and even promoting cancer cell death (10).

In 2010, researchers from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center published a study in the journal Clinical Cancer Research showing that sulforaphane had the ability to kill breast cancer stem cells in mice and in lab cultures, and it also prevented the growth of new tumor Cancer Center published a study in the journal Clinical Cancer Research showing that sulforaphane had the ability to kill breast cancer stem cells in mice and in lab cultures, and it also prevented the growth of new tumor Cancer Research showing that sulforaphane had the ability to kill breast cancer stem cells in mice and in lab cultures, and it also prevented the growth of new tumor cancer stem cells in mice and in lab cultures, and it also prevented the growth of new tumor cells.

A new study by Dana - Farber Cancer Institute scientists suggests it may be possible to prevent tumors from recurring and to eradicate metastatic growths by implanting a gel containing immunotherapy during surgical removal of a tumor.

Many more microchimeric cells are found in the blood of healthy women compared to those with breast cancer, for example, suggesting that microchimeric cells can somehow prevent tumor formation.

We were talking about cancer tumors, just earlier and about, you know, how, I think, it was you who was saying that, you know, the tumor grows very quickly, almost springs up all at once, and it's almost, not that it acts like an infectious thing, but it's like almost a failure of the rest of the body to prevent tumor from growing.

«Low - dose chemotherapy regimens could prevent tumor recurrence in types of breast cancer, pancreatic cancer.»

«We are looking for novel ways of preventing cancer cells of the primary tumor from spreading to other parts of the body.

In demonstrating that FOXO4 works to prevent the spread of cancerous tumors by binding to and inhibiting the protein RUNX2, the team identified a circuit that controls metastatic progression in prostate cancer.

Frequent, low - dose chemotherapy regimens avoid this effect and may therefore be more effective at treating certain types of breast and pancreatic cancer, according to the murine study «Metronomic chemotherapy prevents therapy - induced stromal activation and induction of tumor - initiating cells,» which will be published online November 23 in The Journal of Experimental Medicine.

Hence, a major goal of cancer scientists has been to develop drugs that prevent Mdm2 from binding to p53, and to thereby activate p53 to kill the tumor cell.

Now that we know more about how cancer originates and how tumors re-grow after treatment, we can design new therapies to prevent this.

Researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) College of Medicine have shown that a new targeted treatment could benefit patients with certain pancreatic tumors by preventing spread of the cancer and protecting their heart from damage — a direct result of the tumor.

A UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center discovery of just how a certain tumor suppressor molecule works to prevent tumor growth could lead to a personalized treatment approach for colon cCancer Center discovery of just how a certain tumor suppressor molecule works to prevent tumor growth could lead to a personalized treatment approach for colon cancercancer.

However, some 80 percent of solid tumors churn out extra thymidine kinase, which is thought to prevent cancer cell death.

PTEN prevents tumor cells from growing uncontrollably, and mutations in the gene encoding this protein are commonly found in many different types of cancer.

This forms a structured and strong vessel barrier around the tumor, preventing cancer cells to escape to the bloodstream and invade distant organs.»

In a study published in the journal Nature Medicine, the researchers reported that the tumor - suppressing protein AIM2, or Absent in Melanoma 2, helps prevent colon cancer by restricting a signaling molecule called Akt.

For example, if scientists can find a way to turn down overexpression of these genes in cancer, we could disrupt cancer growth and prevent tumor progression.

«A deeper analysis of the primary tumor may be all we need to prevent metastases,» said UNC Lineberger's Lisa A. Carey, MD, physician - in - chief of the N.C. Cancer Hospital and the Richardson and Marilyn Jacobs Preyer Distinguished Professor in Breast Cancer Research, who leads the Tumor Donation Protumor may be all we need to prevent metastases,» said UNC Lineberger's Lisa A. Carey, MD, physician - in - chief of the N.C. Cancer Hospital and the Richardson and Marilyn Jacobs Preyer Distinguished Professor in Breast Cancer Research, who leads the Tumor Donation ProTumor Donation Program.

Anti-inflammatory cancer therapy instead would prevent premalignant cells from turning fully cancerous or would impede an existing tumor from spreading to distant sites in the body.

«The best way to apply immunotherapy as cancer prevention is during tumor dormancy to prevent advanced stage disease.»

The authors said their results, which they have made publicly available, constitute an invaluable resource to help clinicians predict which chemotherapies will be most effective against tumor cells with particular genetic mutations, and how to rationally combine therapies to prevent cancers from developing resistance.

«Can protein 14 -3-3 sigma prevent or kill breast cancer tumors?

Now, scientists have modified Salmonella bacteria to trigger a particularly powerful immune response against human cancer cells implanted in mice, shrinking the tumors and — for the first time — preventing them from metastasizing.

When mice bearing pancreatic tumors were injected with an antibody that prevents galectin - 9 from docking into dectin - 1, they developed M1 macrophages, which sent signals that dramatically increased the number of T cells capable of attacking the cancer cells.

«New class of compounds shrinks pancreatic cancer tumors, prevents regrowth.»

The finding warrants research into adding drugs that could prevent the cancer from hijacking patients» repressive gene regulatory machinery, which might allow the original therapy to work long enough to eradicate the tumor, the researchers report in their National Institutes of Health - funded study, published in the current issue of Science Translational Medicine.

In studies of laboratory - grown human tumor cell lines, the drug disrupted tumor cell division and prevented growth of advanced cancer cells.

«Our study reveals important differences and specificities in the mechanism of action of high - and low - dose aspirin in metastatic and nonmetastatic cancer cells with different tumor origins and suggests that the ability of aspirin to prevent platelet - induced c - MYC [an oncoprotein] expression might be selective for a nonmetastatic phenotype.»

Because the stem cells generate the brain cancer cells, killing off the stem cells might prevent tumors from recurring.

Therapies that prevent tumor blood vessel growth are often used in clinics to fight cancer — but they are only effective in a particular subset of patients.

In a new study, Yale Cancer Center researchers identified a novel genetic defect that prevents brain tumor cells from repairing damaged DNA.

If it proves as effective in people as it is in mice, a vaccine could one day be given to cancer patients after surgery, radiation therapy, or chemotherapy to prevent tumors from regrowing.

This could mean that the approach can also prevent tumor metastasis, the most threatening aspect of cancer.

«That T - cells, activated by immunotherapy prior to surgery, can intercept rogue tumor cells throughout the body after the patient's operation and prevent the cancer from recurring may be a game - changer.

Now, a new approach that tailors a personalized vaccine to the mutated proteins in an individual's tumor appears to have prevented early relapses in 12 people with skin cancer.

«If we could prevent development of the new blood vessels in the cancer tissue driven by these signals, tumor growth and metastasis can be slowed down or prevented.»

Furthermore, the agent prevented the drop in the number of neutrophils (i.e., neutropenia) found in the blood that is typically caused by 5 - fluorouracil, a chemotherapy agent commonly used in the treatment of gastrointestinal and other tumors, such as colon, stomach, pancreas and breast cancers.

Zhang's laboratory now seeks to understand the mechanisms of the tissue - environment influence, opening the possibility that the environment could be altered in a way that fights cancer by preventing tumor cell growth.

«This model, when combined with a rare genetic disease, revealed for the first time how a protein known to prevent tumor growth in most cases, p53, may instead drive bone cancer when genetic changes cause too much of it to be made in the wrong place.»

A new study from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center reveals molecular changes within a tumor that are preventing immunotherapy drugs from killing off the cCancer Center reveals molecular changes within a tumor that are preventing immunotherapy drugs from killing off the cancercancer.

They also found that drugs that target this newly identified cancer pathway can prevent tumor growth, both in human cancer cells and mice with a form of brain cancer.

As a powerful tumor suppressor, p53 turns on genes that either halt cell division to allow time for repair of damaged DNA or, when all rescue attempts prove futile, to prevent cells with genetic defects from dividing, as this would fuel the development of cancer.

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A Mayo Clinic research team has developed a new type of cancer - fighting nanoparticle aimed at shrinking breast cancer tumors, while also preventing recurrence of the disease.

The process works by introducing healthy immune cells, or T cells, that eliminate tumor cells and prevent the cancer from relapsing.

Viral vectors have the main adverse effect of inducing neutralizing antibodies, while several non-viral vectors present toxic effects (e.g. respiratory system).14, 15 In an effort to deliver efficiently the necessary drug concentration to the tumor site and prevent systemic adverse effects, the concept of administering local treatment for lung cancer has been explored.

Using this model, they confirmed that beta - catenin - expressing cancers did prevent T cells from entering the tumor microenvironment.