Custom-made to attack cancer cells, CAR T-cell therapies have opened a new era in the treatment of human cancers, particularly, in hematologic malignancies. All too often, however, they display a frustrating trait inherited ...
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Unlike other forms of blood cancer, acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cannot currently be treated with CAR-T cell immunotherapy. The reason is that specific molecular targets with which certain immune cells could specifically ...
Mar 13, 2023
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The finger-up-the-bottom examination for prostate cancer has been drawn into question. An international panel of experts recently suggested that so-called digital rectal examination for "active surveillance" should be replaced ...
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Some cities fight gangs with ex-members who educate kids and starve gangs of new recruits. Stanford Medicine researchers have done something similar with cancer—altering cancer cells so that they teach the body's immune ...
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The performance characteristics of prostate-specific membrane antigen positron emission tomography improves with increasing prostate-specific antigen (PSA) level. This, coupled with insurance approval concerns if applied ...
Mar 6, 2023
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Pancreatic cancer is an incurable form of cancer, and gene therapies are currently in clinical testing to treat this deadly disease. A comprehensive review of the gene and cell biotherapies in development to combat pancreatic ...
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Blood cancer patients, especially when they relapse, have a poor prognosis, and generally do not survive very long. The last five years have seen success in treating these patients with Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T-cells—a ...
Feb 24, 2023
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Predicting the course of prostate cancer is challenging because only a fraction of prostate cancer patients experience recurrence after radical prostatectomy or radiation therapy. Yet, prostate cancer remains one of the most ...
Feb 14, 2023
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New adoptive T cell therapies—in which T cells, the immune system's natural hunters patrolling the body for foreign adversaries, are retrieved from cancer-riddled patients, super-charged and amplified outside the body, ...
Feb 10, 2023
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CAR T-cell therapy, a certain kind of cancer treatment in which the immune system's T cells are programmed to attack tumor cells, is effective in mice with ovarian cancer, according to a study published in The Journal for ...
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