antitumor
Americanadjective
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Zarif explained this is likely because there was already so much antitumor immune activity in the JHU083-treated tumors.
From Science Daily ● May 21, 2024
Even more promising, when the researchers combined their modified T cells with a type of immunotherapy called immune checkpoint blockade, they further increased antitumor activity.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 15, 2023
The monoclonal antibody bevacizumab gained regulatory approval in 2004 for patients with advanced colon cancer, and more than a dozen other angiogenesis inhibitors have since joined the antitumor arsenal.
From Science Magazine ● May 16, 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
In an attempt to develop a treatment for these more advanced cases, the researchers at Dana-Farber have been experimenting with levels of antitumor agents that are much higher than those normally prescribed.
From Time Magazine Archive
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