Sentences with phrase «tumor cells within the body»

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Cancer researchers are just beginning to investigate the extent and significance of genetic differences among tumor cells — either cells within a discrete tumor or between a primary tumor and metastases in other parts of the body.

«The big surprise,» Discher said, «is that injected macrophages circulate all around the body but accumulate only within the tumors where they engorge on cancer cells.»

All patients who received the CTL019 «hunter» cells experienced a cytokine release syndrome (CRS) within a few days after receiving their infusions — a key indicator that the engineered cells have begun proliferating and killing tumor cells in the body.

According to recent research, the most common solid tumors (that is, cancer that occurs as clusters of cells in or on organs, rather than in liquid form within the blood or lymphatic system) have up to 66 mutations that influence how the cancer cells operate — how fast they divide, whether they are susceptible to the signals that would normally cause a cell to die, when they detach from the main tumor to colonize another organ in the body, when and where they attach blood vessels to healthy tissues.

The unique tumor - tropic properties of neural stem cells (NSCs) may provide the means to significantly improve antibody distribution within metastatic tumor sites throughout the body [2], [3], [4], [5], [6].