Sentences with phrase «shrink aggressive tumors»

The CRISPR - Cas9 genome editing system could help fight cancer, and now, researchers have used the tool to target what they call cancer's command center, in a treatment that's been shown in mice to shrink aggressive tumors and increase survival rates, without harming healthy cells.

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Oncologists have long known that in rare cases, after patients receive radiation therapy to shrink a tumor, the immune system will mount an aggressive response that wipes out not only the tumor, but metastases throughout the body that hadn't been treated with the radiation.

Scientists exploit gene therapy to shrink tumors in mice with an aggressive form of breast cancer.

May 16, 2018 • An aggressive type of breast cancer — a HER2 - positive tumor — often shrinks with Herceptin treatment, but side effects can be tough.