Neuroblastoma is the most common extracranial solid cancer in children, and patients with high-risk disease are challenging to treat. In a promising development, researchers at Baylor College of Medicine released initial ...
May 2, 2019
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A new form of cancer immunotherapy has been given to a University of California, San Diego Health patient in the first test of immune cells grown from stem cells.
Apr 16, 2019
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A chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy that targets the protein mesothelin showed no evidence of major toxicity and had antitumor activity in patients with malignant pleural disease from mesothelioma, according ...
Mar 31, 2019
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University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers have identified a potential way to target a subtype of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) using chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy, a form ...
Jan 4, 2019
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In just a few years, CAR T-cell and other adoptive T-cell therapies have emerged as among the most promising forms of cancer immunotherapy. But even as these agents prove themselves against several forms of leukemia and lymphoma—and, ...
Oct 30, 2018
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In recent years, researchers have begun to fight cancer by genetically engineering a patient's own immune system to target the disease. Quad Technologies, a company that grew out of a Northeastern research lab, has been developing ...
Oct 18, 2018
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Chinese scientists reveal the feasibility, tolerability, and efficacy of BCMA-CD19 bispecific CAR T-cells for treating chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) and highlight the potential of CAR-T cell therapy ...
Jun 20, 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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In the exploration of cancer treatment modalities, an article published in Biomolecules and Biomedicine titled "CAR-macrophage versus CAR-T for solid tumors: The race between a rising star and a superstar," offers an examination ...
Jan 17, 2024
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Immunotherapy has changed the way oncology patients are treated. Immunotherapy approaches, including the use of immunomodulatory agents to enhance anti-cancer responses and the recent development of adoptive cell therapies ...
Apr 21, 2022
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