Cancer research expands body's own immune system to kill tumors
Scientists are hoping advances in cancer research could lead to a day when a patient's own immune system could be used to fight and destroy a wide range of tumors.
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Scientists are hoping advances in cancer research could lead to a day when a patient's own immune system could be used to fight and destroy a wide range of tumors.
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Houston Methodist researchers have developed a mathematical model to predict how specific cancers will respond to immunotherapy treatments, thus enhancing chances for successful treatments from a wide variety of cancer-immunotherapy ...
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Michael Green, M.D., Ph.D., noticed that when his patients had cancer that spread to the liver, they fared poorly—more so than when cancer spread to other parts of the body. Not only that, but transformative immunotherapy ...
Jan 4, 2021
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In cancer treatment, immunotherapy helps the patient's immune system fight cancer, for example through better recognition of the cancer cells, and it has proven effective in various types of cancer.
Dec 15, 2020
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Cancer immunotherapy using "designer" immune cells has revolutionized cancer treatment in recent years. In this type of therapy, T cells, a type of white blood cell, are collected from a patient's blood and subjected to genetic ...
Dec 14, 2020
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Despite the success of immunotherapy in the treatment of cancers such as lung or melanoma, it is still not effective in breast cancers for being 'cold', with low infiltration of immune cells. Tumors use strategies to evade ...
Dec 10, 2020
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A new approach to cancer immunotherapy has the potential to be a universal treatment for solid tumors, according to researchers at Purdue University.
Dec 10, 2020
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A new approach to cancer therapy shows potential to transform the commonly used chemotherapy drug gemcitabine into a drug that kills cancer cells in a specialized way, activating immune cells to fight the cancer, according ...
Dec 7, 2020
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EPFL scientists have developed a cancer treatment method that destroys tumor cells using the mechanical force of our bodies' own T cells. They have just completed a proof of concept for their novel immunotherapy approach.
Nov 30, 2020
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University of Cincinnati researchers have discovered new clues into why some people with head and neck cancer respond to immunotherapy, while others don't.
Nov 24, 2020
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