Sentences with phrase «research on cancer chemotherapy»

By showing that cancer cells were not autonomous and self perpetuating, as previously believed, but were dependent on chemical signals, such as hormones to grow and survive, and that depriving cancer cells of those signals could restore the health of patients with widespread metastases, Dr. Huggins provided an immense stimulus to research on cancer chemotherapy.

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Commenting on the study, Dr Andres Poveda, Head of the Gynecological Oncology Clinic at Fundación Instituto Valenciano de Oncología, Valencia, Spain, who was not involved in the research, said the CIRCCa study is the second recent trial to show the benefit of adding an antiangiogenic drug to chemotherapy in cervical cancer.

«The focus of chemotherapy and existing standard - of - care is on killing cancer cells but instead we took a completely different approach which changes the environment the cancer cells live in,» said Mick Bhatia, director and senior scientist with the McMaster Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institute, who led the group that performed the cancer cells but instead we took a completely different approach which changes the environment the cancer cells live in,» said Mick Bhatia, director and senior scientist with the McMaster Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institute, who led the group that performed the cancer cells live in,» said Mick Bhatia, director and senior scientist with the McMaster Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institute, who led the group that performed the Cancer Research Institute, who led the group that performed the study.

«Based on this research, we are now conducting a first - in - human study combining the PARP inhibitor with radiation and chemotherapy in patients with locally advanced pancreatic cancer, with an ultimate goal of improving survival rates and treatment outcomes,» said Tuli.

Research jointly conducted by investigators at Institut Gustave Roussy, Inserm, Institut Pasteur and INRA (French National Agronomic Research Institute) has led to a rather surprising discovery on the manner in which cancer chemotherapy treatments act more effectively with the help of the intestinal flora (also known as the intestinal microbiota).

The collection contains over 20,000 different samples of Salmonella, with half of the samples housed at the Cancer Research Center where researchers affiliated with MU focus on three areas of cancer research: early detection, targeted treatment and new, effective chemothCancer Research Center where researchers affiliated with MU focus on three areas of cancer research: early detection, targeted treatment and new, effective chemoResearch Center where researchers affiliated with MU focus on three areas of cancer research: early detection, targeted treatment and new, effective chemothcancer research: early detection, targeted treatment and new, effective chemoresearch: early detection, targeted treatment and new, effective chemotherapy.

Dr. Innocentis NIH - funded research program is currently focused on the discovery of genomic determinants of efficacy and toxicity of cancer chemotherapy, integrating clinical genomic investigation with functional evaluation of gene variation.

A story in last Friday's New York Times highlights research on «cancer stem cells»: a fraction of cells in a tumor that are especially resistant to chemotherapy and resemble the body's non-cancerous stem cells in their ability to renew themselves.

CRI postdoctoral fellow Jeffrey Chou, M.D., Ph.D., of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, with his sponsor Edus Warren, M.D., Ph.D., is focusing on developing a new treatment approach that combines low - dose chemotherapy with immunotherapy.

Research from the Dana - Farber Cancer Institute tested the effects of drinking caffeinated coffee on nearly 1,000 bowel cancer patients who had undergone chemotherapy and suCancer Institute tested the effects of drinking caffeinated coffee on nearly 1,000 bowel cancer patients who had undergone chemotherapy and sucancer patients who had undergone chemotherapy and surgery.