Sentences with phrase «tumours shrank»

In 26 out of 32 patients, tumours shrank by more than 30 per cent, and two of the patients saw their tumours completely disappear.

Tumours shrank in about 60 % of women who received the targeted drug, called olaparib (Lynparza), compared with 29 % of those who received chemotherapy.

Out of eight animals given the combination treatment, the tumours shrank dramatically or disappeared completely in seven, and regrew only in one, the team reports in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In addition to helping patients live longer, more patients treated with pembrolizumab responded to treatment and for a longer duration than those treated with chemotherapy; the objective response rate — the percentage of patients whose tumours shrank or disappeared — was almost twice as high with pembrolizumab: 21 % compared to 11 % on chemotherapy.

When mice that had been implanted with human lung tumours inhaled these bubbles — which also contained molecules that suppress drug resistance — their tumours shrank.

After treatment, the tumour shrinks, forms a scab and falls off, leaving fresh skin underneath that heals completely, she says.

The response rate 24 weeks after therapy has been at 75 % — not only most patients still lived after six months, but 75 % had their tumour shrunk and had lower PSA.

«This is almost a Eureka moment for us because it's the first time we can say for sure that it was the immunotherapy that was making the tumour shrink,» Professor Woods said.

Senior author Dr Paul Chapman, from the Melanoma and Sarcoma Service at Memorial Sloan - Kettering Cancer Centre, said, «We have seen many tumours shrink rapidly and, in some patients, quality of life improved dramatically.

Not exact matches

This time, she was given different chemotherapy — docetaxel and gemcitabine — as it was assumed that her cancer had grown resistant to the previous drugs, and, after several weeks, the tumours had shrunk right down.

If anything, he says, the two approaches are complementary, as tumours softened up and then shrunk by chemotherapy could be finished off with blood - vessel blockers.

«Pancreatic cancer is extremely hard to treat by chemotherapy, so this finding is important because vitamin A targets the non-cancerous tissue and makes the existing chemotherapy more effective, killing the cancer cells and shrinking tumours.

A third group of mice received the standard high dose of chemotherapy at first, but once the animals» tumours started to shrink, the researchers dialled back the dose.

One strain makes a molecule that protects against skin cancer and shrinks tumours in mice

The team also tried skipping doses whenever the tumour began to shrink, but that worked no better.

His immune system has begun to attack the tumours; some have stopped growing, others have shrunk.

The microbes shrink tumours in dogs — and seem able to do it in humans too.

Forty - two days later, two of the volunteers» tumours had shrunk in size significantly, and the rest of the volunteers» tumours had not grown.

To prevent complete amputation of arms or legs, pre-treatment with chemotherapy is used to shrink the tumour before operation.

The tests were 88 per cent accurate at predicting drugs that had successfully shrunk tumours in these people (Science, doi.org/ckss).

The «nanogenerators» shrunk tumours and kept them from re-growing in mice afflicted with either prostate cancer or lymphoma.

An international team of researchers has found a drug previously approved to treat breast cancer could also be used to shrink medulloblastoma, a common form of childhood brain tumour.

In mouse experiments, the researchers found that blocking heparanase shrank the tumours by 80 %.

Early stages of clinical testing, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, suggest that it may help to shrink advanced melanoma tumours with BRAF faults.

Of the 55 patients involved in this stage of the research, 16 had faulty BRAF genes and the tumours of 11 of these patients shrank.

A new study, in Nature Biotechnology, investigates the use of nanorobots to shrink tumours by cutting off their blood supply.

Contrary to the medical preference of chemically castrating men with prostate cancer, research with boron has shown that elevated testosterone levels are beneficial by shrinking prostate tumours and PSA levels, PSA being a marker for tumours and inflammation in the prostate.

How CANNABIS can treat cancer: Study finds compound in the plant can help shrink aggressive brain tumours.