Sentences with phrase «tumor shrinkage with»

Kidney cancer patients may see long - lasting tumor shrinkage with immunotherapy, which uses the immune system as a weapon to fight cancer.

Not exact matches

And using lower levels of Yervoy in combination with Opdivo actually prompted more tumor shrinkage, underscoring the fact that dosing is a critical and unpredictable factor for immunotherapies.

A combination of fostamatinib and paclitaxel reduced tumor size in six mice by up to 87 percent, compared with no shrinkage in six untreated animals after three weeks.

«We treated these three patients with drugs that attack these genetic alterations and saw tumor shrinkage.

Of 10 men whose metastatic cancers could be measured with imaging scans, five experienced tumor shrinkage by more than half, including one man whose cancer completely disappeared.

«In our Phase I / II clinical studies with PDT alone, tumor destruction was achieved in all cases, and we've seen at least one case where PDT alone induced enough tumor shrinkage to enable follow - up surgery.

«In the tumor sample from a patient with high NRP - 1 expression, there was a significant improvement in the efficacy of the nanoparticle to induce tumor shrinkage,» said Nel.

«The results were remarkable, with significant shrinkage in patient - derived tumors,» said Memarzadeh, who also is an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology and the director of the G.O. Discovery Laboratory at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research and associate professor.

«We demonstrated that the co-administration of the iRGD peptide with the particles can enhance the effectiveness of pancreatic cancer treatment in the tumor model, leading to increased tumor shrinkage, disappearance of metastases and enhanced animal survival» said Meng, an adjunct assistant professor of nanomedicine.

NCI is establishing a national database to house and integrate genomic information from tumors with clinical response data (e.g., tumor shrinkage) and outcomes information (e.g., length of survival) as a resource for scientists, health care professionals, and patients.

Reuters reports that about 30 % of people treated with pembrolizumab experience significant tumor shrinkage.