Sentences with phrase «tumors use the fuel»

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The mice are particularly good models of estrogen receptor - positive tumors (so named because they are fueled by estrogen) that have become resistant to the drugs used to treat them.

The tests, which showed that the cancer cell's metabolic activity dropped significantly, helped prove that the tumors were using the exosomes as fuel.

Nagrath, who directs Rice's Laboratory for Systems Biology of Human Diseases, found that some cancer cells are capable of using these information packets as a source of energy to fuel tumor growth.

Sugar is the very fuel used by tumor cells.

To this day, many oncologists refuse to let their breast cancer patients use natural, bioidentical progesterone out of fear that it could fuel tumor growth.