Sentences with phrase «to become cancer»

Every day, multiple cells in our body become transformed and develop the potential to become cancer cells.

Another view is that tumors can become resistant to therapy by a process called cell fate decision, by which some tumor cells are killed by therapy and others become cancer stem cells.

People can understand that those dying will go to extreme measures, not for selfish reasons, but so the people who love them don't become cancer's collateral damage.

Our laboratory is doing that, but it's also looking for markers to help determine which ones never have the chance of becoming cancers in the first place.

So if you can make a T cell become cancer specific, then the potential is that the patient can have lifelong protection from that because the T cells are long lived cells.

I have since traded in my bike and am on my way to becoming a cancer coach.

Other times, however, the cell damage leads to mutations that then become cancer or other illnesses.

«All overdiagnosed patients are needlessly exposed to the hassle factors of obtaining treatment, the financial implications of the diagnosis, and the anxieties associated with becoming a cancer patient,» concluded the researchers, who were led by H. Gilbert Welch, MD, a professor of medicine at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, in Hanover, N.H..

Bellicum is among the flurry of biotechs investing heavily into cell therapies such as experimental chimeric antigen receptor T - cell (CAR - T) treatments for cancer (this is the next - gen treatment that involves reprogramming immune cells to become cancer killers and has shown promise in blood cancers, which Bellicum specializes in).

The wonderful people at Neel's Pet Hospital think that once Libby becomes a cancer survivor, she needs to be trained as a therapy dog.

«We were surprised to find cancer - linked genes in these benign endometriosis samples because these lesions do not typically become cancer,» says Papadopoulos, whose Ludwig Center laboratories performed the sequencing.

The authors hypothesize that in addition to these functions, epigenetic alterations may also serve as a common trigger through which susceptible and genetically predisposed stem cells become cancer progenitor cells.

To become a full - blown cancer (as opposed to a cell with a single, potentially threatening mutation — a genetic risk factor for becoming a cancer) requires the accumulation of five to ten mutations, and statistically that requires multiple rounds of cell division and selection.

When the altered T cells were delivered back into Olson's veins, his immune system became a cancer - seeking weapon.

The findings illuminate the first steps cells take towards becoming a cancer and demonstrate the value of analyzing normal tissue to learn more about the origins of the disease.

Elsner - Sommer decided to become a Cancer Center volunteer after her own cancer experience, which began in the late 1990s.

MGUS can also become cancer, such as multiple myeloma, lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma, or chronic lymphocytic leukemia.

«MDM2 inhibitors may prevent PanIN lesions from becoming cancer, reducing the toll of this currently incurable malignancy.»

Eating foods high in this fat - soluble phytochemical (meaning that in order for our bodies to uptake it, it does need to be eaten with a fat) is correlated with a reduced risk of various cancers, including prostate, breast, and lung cancers due to its ability to bind to and deactivate insulin - like growth factors (IGF)-- these are the cells that often become cancer cells.

Upon hearing such devastating news, she took Drake to Holistic Vet Care, where Dr. Richter put Drake on a series of holistic treatments which allowed Drake to become cancer free!

Kinnear has been in real estate since 1993 but did not start building a team until early in the new millennium, after becoming a cancer survivor and re-thinking her priorities.

It's the second approval for this pioneering approach to cancer treatment, which involves re-engineering patients» own immune cells to become cancer killers, after the FDA's approval of Novartis» Kymriah in August.

In a paper published in Science the researchers describe the mechanism by which cancer tumor cells become cancer stem cells that can sustain long - term growth.

«How the virus infects and replicates has a direct influence on how the cell becomes a cancer cell,» Gao said, adding that you can not cure cancer without some kind of roadmap.

I do it in honor of my mother who had to undergo a massive dietary change when she become a cancer patient.

«We repurpose cells to become cancer - killers.»

Prof. Jean - Christophe Marine (VIB - KU Leuven): «Importantly, our work also provides clear evidence that non-dividing, differentiated cells with highly specialized functions can be genetically reprogrammed later in life to become cancer - causing cells.»

«We have determined that HE4 plays a part in allowing ovarian cells to become cancer cells, giving them the ability to grow and resist chemo.»

But precursor lesions that form in the pancreas and its ducts can signal the disease before it strikes, and when caught early enough, they can be prevented from progressing to become cancer.

These are benign, and they're fooling us into thinking they could become cancers.

When they disabled the RB protein in female brain cells, the cells were equally susceptible to becoming cancers.

What we are seeing here are the hidden depths of the iceberg, not just the relatively small number that break through the surface waters to become cancer.»

However, very little has been done to prove absolutely that the expression or activation of the IGF - 1 signaling pathway at physiologically relevant levels is sufficient to cause a healthy prostate cell to become a cancer cell.

One way of thinking about that problem, Ellisen suggests, is that «a cell needs successive mutations, or hits, to become a cancer cell.»

Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) is not cancer but can become cancer.

A new study co-authored by Jorge Moscat, Ph.D., and Maria Diaz - Meco Ph.D., professors at SBP's NCI - designated Cancer Center, looks at ways to detect and stop precursors of pancreatic cancer — premalignant lesions known as intraepithelial neoplasia 1 (PanIN1)-- before they become cancer.

A proteomics analysis of cells that are prone to becoming cancer cells, described in Molecular & Cellular Proteomics, reveals clear signatures of mitochondrial and metabolic stress.

A genetic analysis linked two gene mutations to cysts with a tendency to become cancers.

«But when this becomes a cancer, a lymphoma, these cells don't get turned off.»

Eating just one grapefruit a day, even split into halves, can help you burn fat, get a more toned body and become a cancer - fighting machine!

How I Became a Cancer - Slaying Super Man Before I Turned 21.

But even in these cases, mutations must occur in additional genes for the malignancy to form and be able to spread — to become a cancer.

Someone had a strange lump that became cancer.

Somewhere along the line — at about a billion years ago — we quit the contract and became a cancer.

Researchers have found that anxious people were 25 % more likely to have abnormal cells that might become cancer.

In many cases, cervical cancer can be avoided by finding abnormal cell changes and treating them BEFORE they become cancer.

Cervical cancer symptoms are hard to notice, but tests can find abnormal cells before they become cancer.