By recruiting the immune system to combat tumor cells, immunotherapy has improved survival rates, offering hope to millions of cancer patients. However, only about one in five people responds favorably to these treatments.
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Yu-Hwa Huang, Ph.D. and Charles Yoon, MD, of the Department of Medicine and Department of Surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital respectively, are co-lead authors of a paper titled "High-dimensional mapping of human CEACAM1 ...
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A protein called Meteorin-like (METRNL) in the tumor microenvironment saps energy from T cells, thereby severely limiting their ability to fight cancer, according to new research directed by investigators at the Johns Hopkins ...
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Since the first immunotherapy drug to boost the body's immune response against advanced lung cancer was introduced in the United States in 2015, survival rates of patients with the disease have improved significantly. That's ...
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A new form of immunotherapy using innovative nanoparticles can delay resistance to hormone therapy and help men with prostate cancer live longer.
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In a new translational research study published in Cancer Research, investigators at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) explored the potential of statins—commonly used medications for managing cholesterol levels—to ...
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B-ALL is the most common pediatric cancer and, over the years and thanks to a very effective treatment based on glucocorticoids, its 5-year survival rates have reached 85% and beyond. However, there is a B-ALL subtype, commonly ...
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One of the most innovative treatments for pediatric cancer today is a novel form of targeted immunotherapy that was recently developed and is now increasingly being applied to pediatric cancer treatment: chimeric antigen ...
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Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered new insights into the production and regulation of a class of noncoding RNAs and how alterations in their signatures diversify and modulate the transcriptome of three major ...
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Even as they have revolutionized the treatment of certain forms of cancer, CAR T-cell therapies have been shadowed by a significant limitation: Many patients, including those whose cancer goes into full remission, eventually ...
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