Breakthrough therapies are saving lives, but can we afford them?
Harnessing the body's own cells to fight disease, long a medical dream, is finally a reality.
May 13, 2024
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Harnessing the body's own cells to fight disease, long a medical dream, is finally a reality.
May 13, 2024
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Researchers at the National Cancer Institute-designated Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center (MECCC) have shown that a breakthrough therapy for treating blood cancers can be adapted to treat solid tumors—an advance ...
May 8, 2024
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Targeting anti-cancer therapy to affect cancer cells but not healthy cells is challenging. For chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T–cell immunotherapy, where a patient's own immune cells are re-engineered to attack cancer ...
May 3, 2024
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Tumor cells are "cunning," according to Peter Yingxiao Wang. They have a nefarious way of evading the human immune responses that fight back against these cancerous invaders. Tumor cells express programmed death-ligand 1 ...
May 2, 2024
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For patients with relapsed or refractory CD7-positive leukemia or lymphoma, sequential CD7 chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy followed by haploidentical hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation (HSCT) is safe and ...
Apr 25, 2024
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Researchers at Texas Children's Cancer Center and the Center for Cell and Gene Therapy at Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital and Houston Methodist have published results of a Phase I clinical trial of a ...
Apr 24, 2024
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Autoimmune disease (AID) refers to the condition in which the immune system identifies the body's own cells and tissues as foreign, resulting in systemic inflammation. The immune system's self-attack via autoreactive B and ...
Apr 22, 2024
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Researchers at Peter Mac have overcome a major barrier that could see a revolutionary immunotherapy treatment becoming successful on patients with solid cancer types.
Apr 11, 2024
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For patients with immune effector cell-associated neurotoxicity syndrome (ICANS) due to chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy, electroencephalogram (EEG) has the greatest therapeutic impact, according to a study ...
Apr 8, 2024
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A novel treatment for leukemias and lymphomas that arise from immune system T cells, developed by investigators at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and its Ludwig Center and Lustgarten Laboratory, was found to be effective ...
Apr 2, 2024
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