Sentences with phrase «with aggressive blood cancers»

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy, which edits a cancer patient's T cells to recognize their tumors, has successfully helped patients with aggressive blood cancers but has yet to show the ability to treat solid tumors.

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In clinical trials the treatment — which involves extracting individual patients» immune T - cells, modifying them to seek out tell - tale biological markers associated with blood cancers like aggressive lymphoma, and then pumping those modified killer cells back into the body — has shown major promise, in some cases eliminating all signs of the cancer in patients six months after treatment.

Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis has made waves with a drug pipeline that includes one of the most talked - about experimental cancer therapies in recent years — a treatment called Kymriah that reconfigures the body's own immune cells to become aggressive blood - cancer killers.

giant Novartis has made waves with a drug pipeline that includes one of the most talked - about experimental cancer therapies in recent years — a treatment called Kymriah that reconfigures the body's own immune cells to become aggressive blood - cancer killers.

Patients with high levels of miR - 194 in their blood could receive more aggressive treatment to reduce the chance of the cancer spreading to other parts of the body.»

Concerned that the drug by itself might not keep his aggressive cancer at bay, Wartman opted for a second transplant — this time with stem cells isolated from peripheral blood from an unrelated donor.

Many people with angiosarcoma, a rare and aggressive cancer of the blood vessel lining, survived for only about six months beyond diagnosis.

At the Maharaj Institute, our team has been treating blood cancers with evidence - based chemotherapy regimens on a totally outpatient basis; a shift in the care of these aggressive malignancies, which normally is done at the hospital.