Sentences with phrase «remaining cancer cells in the body»

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Progressively, the cancer cell expands its body in an attempt to escape immobilization, but the cell margins remain fixed by the nanofibrils, its body is stretched flat.

Researchers are also trying to learn about: - The level of MM - 121 that remains in the human body at different time points when MM - 121 is combined with docetaxel or pemetrexed - The relationship between the biomarker, heregulin, and cancer cell growth (disease progression) in people dosed only with docetaxel or pemetrexed.

Still, cancer cells could remain in the body for many years after treatment.

The U.S. National Library of Medicine describes four goals of chemotherapy: to eliminate all of the cancer cells from the body, to eliminate the cancer cells that remain in the body following surgery, to reduce tumors before surgery and to reduce side effects or slow the spread of the cancer.