Sentences with phrase «second targeted therapy»
Importantly, while not a cure, adding a second targeted therapy could help improve treatments by overcoming drug resistance and extending the time before the cancer returns.
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What Stephen Hawking Missed: Small Biotechs Developing Promising Cell Therapies for Devastating Disease Source: Streetwise Reports (5/2/18) In the second of a two - part series exploring the disruptive cell therapy space, Maxim Group analyst Jason McCarthy takes a look at small - cap companies targeting big - ticket indications and their potential to drive blockbuster value for both patients and investors.
This webinar is the second in a series (see Part 1 here) focusing on the cancer pathways that support tumor development, the emerging research in identifying and targeting these pathways, and innovations in the development of increasingly effective cancer therapy options.
As part of a second trial, Swanton's lab will also study what happens to tumors under the selective pressure of various types of cancer therapies, from traditional chemotherapy to targeted drugs.
The second branch of the combination therapy, the low - dose metronomic chemotherapy, was similarly found to exert its therapeutic effect through a novel, hitherto unrecognized mechanism: The metronomic chemotherapy turned out to not primarily target the tumor cells, but to act on the recruitment of yet another tumor - promoting cell population from the bone marrow.
So, for example, if one type of immunotherapy is used to knock out an inhibitory signal produced by a cancer, and the tumor responds by upregulating a second signal, an additional therapy could then be used to target this one as well, Lu says.
These therapies, the first an antibody and the second of a class called tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs), reduce the ability of a target gene to manufacture the protein it encodes.
By developing a CAR T - cell therapy that targets a second target on malignant cells, it may help leukemia patients whose cancer cells lack the C19 molecule or lose it.