Sentences with phrase «producing new tumor»

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In contrast, the biologic approach injects a genetically engineered protein designed to knock out a tumor's ability to produce new blood vessels, thereby cutting off its capacity to grow.

Their stem cell - like properties enable them to maintain a pool of cancer stem cells within the tumor, as well as to produce new mature tumor cells.

One of the 43 began producing a new protein, which the researchers took to be an antibody to the tumor antigen.

Lee's study results, which appear in the July 16, 2015 issue of Nature Communications, revealed new understanding about how 14 -3-3 sigma — a cell cycle «controller» - regulates cancer metabolic programming, thus protecting healthy cells from turning into tumor - producing factories.

The new study revealed that pancreatic cancer cells not only send signals that make macrophages produce abnormal amounts of dectin - 1 surface receptors, but also that make tumor cells themselves express high levels of galectin - 9.

In the new study, the researchers used a combination of four different therapies to activate both of the immune system's two branches, producing a coordinated attack that led to the complete disappearance of large, aggressive tumors in mice.

In cancer, however, this process can produce invasive and mobile cells that can pass through membranes and travel to distant sites, where they seed new tumors.

While the general technique — eliminating tumors with focused energy — is not new, radiation oncologists, medical physicists, and scientists are combining a number of modern technologies for producing significant breakthroughs in radiation therapy.

A careful balance exists where there are the same number of new cells are produced as there are dying off - and if this balance is disrupted, extra cells begin to replicate, undergo genetic changes, and it is these excess, mutated cells that gather together to form masses and tumors.