antitumor
Americanadjective
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Conventional IL-2 treatment, however, can produce serious side effects and can also stimulate immune cells that actually weaken the antitumor response.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
That elicits a strong antitumor immune response, but it is short lived.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 6, 2024
"We also increased the number of allowable HER2-CAR T infusions to sustain the exposure time of CAR T cells, with the goal of increasing the antitumor effect," Hegde said.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 24, 2024
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
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