The phrase "attacks the tumor" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in medical or scientific contexts to describe a treatment or a biological response aimed at eliminating a tumor.
Example: "The new chemotherapy drug effectively attacks the tumor, reducing its size significantly."
Alternatives: "targets the tumor" or "combats the tumor."
The preparation did indeed provoke a heightened immune response: Blood samples from five of the six patients had increased levels of T cells, a type of white blood cell that attacks the tumor cells.
In addition, immunological tolerance may develop against tumor antigens, so the immune system no longer attacks the tumor cells.
The resulting CAR T cells are redirected by the neospecificity to attack tumors expressing the surface antigen or receptors recognized by the gene-modified T cell receptors and provide cellular therapy that attacks the tumor through normal host immune response in a highly regulated fashion.
"And then the T-cells jump — they leave the lymph node and attack the tumor".
One is a cancer "vaccine," which aims to train the patient's immune system to attack the tumor.
Provenge from Dendreon, by contrast, trains the patient's immune system to attack the tumor.
The vaccine does not prevent cancer but rather seeks to train the body's own immune system to attack the tumor.
But many of them treat side effects of chemotherapy rather than directly attacking the tumor, as Onyx's drugs do.
Provenge is the first so-called therapeutic cancer vaccine, a treatment that works by training the patient's immune system to attack the tumor.
Ipilimumab, the other new drug, releases a brake on the body's immune system, allowing it to more effectively attack the tumor.
The hospitals were all using I.M.R.T., which shapes and varies the intensity of radiation beams to more accurately attack the tumor, while sparing healthy tissue.
