Sentences with phrase «treat pancreatic tumors»

Radiation is often used to treat pancreatic tumors that haven't spread but can't be removed with surgery.

More importantly, Zhang and his team for the first time found that treating the pancreatic tumor cells with MIR506 induced autophagy, a process that occurs as a normal and controlled part of an organism's growth or development and that could promote cancer cell death.

Arafat and her team discovered that when they treated pancreatic tumors (developed in animals for the study) with thymoquinone, 67 % of the tumors shrunk significantly, and levels of inflammatory markers in the cells dropped substantially.

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In a recent study, working with a team of researchers, Danino demonstrated that bacteria in pancreatic tumors degrade a chemotherapy drug — Gemcitabine — most commonly used to treat patients who have pancreatic cancer.

Frequent, low - dose chemotherapy regimens avoid this effect and may therefore be more effective at treating certain types of breast and pancreatic cancer, according to the murine study «Metronomic chemotherapy prevents therapy - induced stromal activation and induction of tumor - initiating cells,» which will be published online November 23 in The Journal of Experimental Medicine.

Researchers elsewhere have been testing metformin in pancreatic cancer patients with little success, says Le, despite indications that it's a good candidate to treat glucose - dependent tumors.

XL184 inhibits two important treatment escape pathways, VEGF and MET, but while it has FDA approval to treat thyroid cancer and is being tested against pancreatic cancer and several other tumors, it is quite toxic requiring dose restrictions or treatment interruption.

The quest to improve survival of children with a high - risk brain tumor has led St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators to two drugs already used to treat adults with breast, pancreatic, lung and other cancers.

This hematoxylin and eosin stained slide of a surgically removed (resected) primary pancreatic tumor shows a cluster of immune cells (lymphoid aggregate) observed next to a pancreatic tumor lesion in a patient treated with a GM - CSF vaccine 2 weeks before surgical removal of the primary tumor.

Poznansky adds that the tumors that might be treated with the mesothelin - targeting vaccine — ovarian cancer, pancreatic cancer and mesothelioma — all have poor survival rates.