Sentences with phrase «tumor survival»

However, tumor cells can circumvent this immune defense by establishing a surrounding microenvironment that prevents the infiltration of NK cells and thus promotes tumor survival and growth.

Our scientists understand that cancer is a complex problem involving factors intrinsic to the tumor that drive its formation, together with tumor - extrinsic mechanisms — notably the vasculature and the immune system — that enable tumor survival.

Nefedova studies molecular mechanisms by which bone marrow microenvironment promotes tumor survival and progression.

ABL kinases are required for tumor survival and tumor - induced osteolysis in the bone microenvironment.

«Taken together, these results support the hypothesis that multiple myeloma cells express bone - related genes in a Runx2 - dependent fashion that mimics bone marrow resident cells and likely contributes to tumor survival and growth in the bone microenvironment,» Yang and colleagues wrote in the paper.

Fourth, vitamin C can inhibit tumor angiogenesis, the process of new blood - cell formation crucial to tumor survival.