antitumor
Americanadjective
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Simply stimulating the immune system, similar to how it responds to a virus, could be enough to generate an antitumor effect.
From Science Daily • Oct. 28, 2025
That elicits a strong antitumor immune response, but it is short lived.
From Science Magazine • Jun. 6, 2024
One flaxseed oil lignan requires microbial processing to release bioactive metabolites, small-molecule chemicals produced during metabolism that influence physiology and disease -- in this case having antitumor effects.
From Science Daily • Dec. 7, 2023
Fifteen years before my diagnosis, Allison and his colleagues from the UC Berkeley Cancer Research Laboratory published a landmark paper on the role of a protein receptor called CTLA-4 in "antitumor immunity."
From Salon • Oct. 1, 2018
Two companies are already planning to test the antitumor proteins in people.
From Time Magazine Archive
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