Word: tumor
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...There are times when the tumor doesn't respond to the drug, but that's only 5 percent of the time," he said...
Kradin said future research will center on keeping the artificially grown lymphocytes alive in the body for longer periods of time by injecting Interleukin 2 directly into a tumor in addition to cultivating a sample outside the body
...study, funded by a grant from the Upjohn Company, began by extracting a portion of live tumor in a patient suffering from adenocarcinoma, a type of lung cancer common to emphysema patients. The doctors mixed the removed tumor with a protein called Interleukin 2, which stimulates the growth of the lymphocytes normally present in the extracted tumor...
Cancers, considered one of the fastest and most uncontrollable of all growths, have proved so deadly since doctors have not yet perfected agents either to inhibit the unrestricted growth or to destroy an existing tumor...
Although Interleukin 2 has been available since 1976, in previous experiments doctors have concentrated on multiplying lymphocytes in general, and have not reproduced and experimented with the cells specifically associated with a malignant tumor...