Sentences with phrase «tumors at distant sites»

The prognosis for metastatic cancer (also called stage IV cancer) is generally poor, so a technique that could detect these circulating tumor cells before they have a chance to form new colonies of tumors at distant sites could greatly increase a patient's survival odds.

This allows cancer cells to break off from tumors, spread throughout the body (in blood or other fluid) and form new tumors at distant sites — a process called metastasis.

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When the dendritic cells are activated, they train T cells — their allies in the adaptive arm of the immune system — to attack cancer cells anywhere in the body, whether at the site of the original tumor or distant metastases.

Studies in cancer patients indicate reduced rates of relapse when patients are pretreated with epigenetic drugs due to its far - reaching capabilities; killing progenitor cells at the site of the tumor, in circulation, or at a distant site.

Eventually some tumor cells may break off and establish new growths (metastases) at distant sites.

«The recent discovery of tumor - promoting milieus, referred to as metastatic niches, that are established at distant sites prior to or upon the arrival of disseminated tumor cells could explain cancer cells that relapse early, but in late relapsing populations, what tumor cells do from the time of dissemination to the time they become clinically detectable has been a big question.»

Importantly, it's secretion from normal cells can be induced by activating p53 so that Par - 4 enters circulation, thereby potentially targeting tumor cells at distant sites.

We describe an experimental model system that definitively links surgery and the subsequent wound - healing response to the outgrowth of tumor cells at distant anatomical sites.

The therapy not only killed cells at the primary tumor site, but also in distant metastases by «bystander» antitumor activity driven by the secreted MDA - 7 / IL - 24 protein.

The Ludwig Center at the University of Chicago --- under the direction of Ralph Weichselbaum, MD, the Daniel K. Ludwig Professor and Chair of the Department of Radiation and Cellular Oncology, and Geoffrey Greene, PhD, the Daniel K. Ludwig Professor in the Ben May Cancer Research Institute at the University of Chicago — will focus on metastasis, the process by which cancer cells migrate from a primary tumor to multiple distant sites.

When tumors are too large for treatment or they have spread to distant sites, therapy is aimed at improving the quality of life of affected pets as much as possible.