Sentences with phrase «remaining tumor cells»

The idea: trigger immune activity within the brain itself to kill remaining tumor cells — the ones neurosurgeons can't take out, which make this type of tumor so dangerous.

He is investigating the possibility that the vaccine induces chromosomal change within those tumor cells that manage to escape the immune attack, and that the change makes remaining tumor cells more vulnerable to chemotherapy.

Although surgery is usually successful, some people may also need medications that lower cortisol or radiation therapy to destroy remaining tumor cells.

It's this «immunosuppressive» microenvironment that gives the remaining tumor cells license to metastasize and flourish in other parts of the body.

Using immunostaining, the researchers counted the remaining tumor cells; the mice treated with GD2 CAR - T cells had a few dozen remaining cancer cells per animal, while each control mouse had tens of thousands of cancer cells.

They then traced the compounds» biochemical breakdown through the mice and found that the remaining tumor cells had high amounts of lactate, an end product of the glucose pathway.

The team says the results of their proof of principle experiment suggest that such particles loaded with «death genes» might one day be given to brain cancer patients during neurosurgery to selectively kill off any remaining tumor cells without damaging normal brain tissue.

The tumor is removed and the site frozen with liquid nitrogen (cryosurgery) to kill any remaining tumor cells.