Sentences with phrase «tumor environments make»

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These might make a cell hardier in a foreign environment — say, when a breast cell relocates to bone — or more able to escape the primary tumor and survive while rushed through the bloodstream.

In this study, we found that chloroquine not only has an effect on the growth of the cancer cells, but also makes the tumor environment less aggressive by normalizing the abnormal blood vessels in the tumor,» says Patrizia Agostinis.

Tumors escape from the fighter T - cells that would otherwise attack them, by tricking the immune system and making an environment ripe for tumor growth.

When using a well established model of colorectal cancer, the researchers observed that dietary emulsifier consumption was sufficient to make the animals more susceptible to developing colonic tumors because this created and maintained a pro-inflammatory environment associated with an altered proliferation / apoptosis (cell death) balance.

Radiation oncologist Anna Saran at the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and the Environment in Rome and colleagues studied mice with a mutation in a gene called Patched that makes them susceptible to brain tumors early in life.

For example, most of these tumors make growth factors that they need to survive, or they «coerce» cells in their environment to do this for them.