One promising treatment for patients with blood cancers is stem cell transplantation. Doctors completely eliminate the patient's immune system by aiming chemotherapy, radiation or both at their bone marrow before replacing ...
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Many cancer treatments are notoriously savage on the body. Drugs often attack both healthy cells and tumor cells, causing a plethora of side effects. Immunotherapies that help the immune system recognize and attack cancer ...
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CoVac-1, a new vaccine against SARS-CoV-2, induced T-cell immune responses in 93 percent of patients with B-cell deficiencies, including many patients with leukemia and lymphoma, according to results presented at the AACR ...
Apr 12, 2022
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Colon cancer is one of the most common types of cancer. Particularly in advanced stages of disease, the treatment still largely relies on traditional chemotherapy. The new generation of cancer treatments, so-called immunotherapies, ...
Mar 31, 2022
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A bit of stress can be good for your mental and physical wellbeing, but too much can lead to anxiety, depression and other health problems. It can also make you age faster. So learning to become more stress-resilient is important ...
Jan 11, 2022
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Adding messenger RNA, or mRNA therapy improves the response to cancer immunotherapy in patients who weren't responding to the treatment, Mayo Clinic research shows. Immunotherapy uses the body's immune system to prevent, ...
Dec 15, 2021
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With the world still in the grip of a devastating pandemic, it's hard to imagine viruses as something other than hostile enemies to be vanquished.
Nov 30, 2021
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Most people want to live a long and happy life—or at least avoid a short and miserable one. If you're in that majority, then you're in luck. Over the last decade, a quiet research revolution has occurred in our understanding ...
Oct 21, 2021
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While the world waits eagerly for a safe and effective vaccine to prevent infections from severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus behind the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers also are focusing ...
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The inflammatory molecule interleukin-17A (IL-17A) triggers immune cells that in turn reduce IL-17A's pro-inflammatory activity, according to a study by National Eye Institute (NEI) researchers. In models of autoimmune diseases ...
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