Sentences with phrase «to stop tumor growth»

In this new study, described Feb. 21 in Cell Reports, Semenza and his colleagues conducted gene expression analysis of multiple human breast cancer cell lines grown in the laboratory after exposure to chemotherapy drugs, like carboplatin, which stops tumor growth by damaging cancer cell DNA.

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center scientists led by Davide Ruggero, PhD, and Kevan Shokat, PhD, used one such drug to stop tumor growth in a mouse model of myc - driven lymphoma and multiple myeloma types of blood cancer.

However, cancer cells may instead be coaxed to turn back into normal tissue simply by reactivating a single gene, according to a study that found that restoring normal levels of a human colorectal cancer gene in mice stopped tumor growth and re-established normal intestinal function within only 4 days.

Developing pharmacological treatments that interfere with this pathway might one day help stop tumor growth.»

If we can boost the immune system and allow microglia to do their job and control brain tumor stem cells, it would be like removing the seed from the soil — stopping the tumor growth before it starts to get out of control.»

The target of the new drug is an enzyme in cancer stem cells and tumor cells called Polo - like kinase 4, which was selected because blocking it negatively affects cell fate decisions associated with cancer stem cell renewal and tumor cell growth, thus stopping tumor growth.

[5] In fact, this work shows a ketogenic diet with hyperbaric oxygen stops the tumor growth progression.

Studies have shown that cinnamon, specifically the cassia variety, works to stop tumor growth without negatively impacting healthy cells surrounding the tumor.

In tests in mice with a very aggressive form of melanoma, the researchers found they could stop tumor growth by delivering this engineered form of IL - 2, along with antibody drugs, once a week.

Researchers found that restoring normal levels of a human colorectal cancer gene in mice stopped tumor growth and re-established normal intestinal function within only 4 days.

Treatment with the drug piroxicam may help stop tumor growth or even reduce the size of your cat's bladder tumors.

«We wanted to know whether correcting the disruption of Apc in established cancers would be enough to stop tumor growth and induce regression,» says first author Lukas Dow of Weill Cornell Medical College.

Angiogenesis inhibitors prevent the growth of new blood vessels and have long been investigated as a way to stop tumor growth.

They succeeded in blocking this enzyme in mice with breast cancer, thus reactivating senescence and stopping tumor growth.

An interesting note: Radishes were found to stop tumor growth by 95 - 100 % for breast and stomach cancer, but may have even increased tumor growth by 20 - 25 % in pancreatic, brain, lung and kidney cancer.

The thought is that by blocking this enzyme, cancer cells would die and slow down or stop tumor growth, the FDA said.