Breakthrough CAR-T cancer treatments are boosting patients' quality of life
A therapy that bolsters the immune system may not only help certain cancer patients live longer, but better, a new study finds.
Apr 5, 2023
0
21
A therapy that bolsters the immune system may not only help certain cancer patients live longer, but better, a new study finds.
Apr 5, 2023
0
21
New insights into a population of tumor-infiltrating T cells may ultimately allow doctors to predict how patients will respond to checkpoint blockade immunotherapy, a form of cancer treatment with advantages that doctors ...
A team of researchers from the Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine has reported that patients with a rare form of brain and spinal cord cancer, localized isocitrate dehydrogenase wild-type (IDHwt) histologically ...
Mar 31, 2023
0
54
In a world first, Newcastle researchers have discovered the mechanisms acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cells use to produce "free radicals"—the byproduct of a cell process that aggressively fuels the growth of cancer cells ...
Mar 29, 2023
0
46
Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) are key factors in the tumor microenvironment, which have been implicated in cancer cell progression. It has also been reported that vesicles called exosomes produced by these CAFs play ...
Mar 28, 2023
0
2
For patients with cancer, age, cancer type, and comorbidity are associated with differential COVID-19 vaccine uptake rates, according to a study published online March 15 in Cancer.
Mar 16, 2023
0
4
On the road, putting a foot on the gas or brake pedal controls the car's speed. This also happens in our body, in driving an immune response. Like human drivers, antibodies have a "foot"—a sort of molecular limb that "presses" ...
Mar 6, 2023
0
34
Fewer cases of melanoma were observed in people with a history of atopic diseases, such as allergic asthma or rhinitis, than in nonatopic people. The risk of melanoma in people with atopy was up to 50% lower than in the control ...
Mar 6, 2023
0
3
Targeted drugs have been developed to supplement chemotherapy in the treatment of cancer. These drugs only affect cancer cells, leaving healthy cells alone. Venetoclax is a new targeted therapy option for the treatment of ...
Feb 23, 2023
0
38
Thanks to a new prognostic method for detecting cancers including cancer of the large intestine, doctors could provide clearer disease prognoses and predict which patients will respond best to immunotherapy. The method consists ...
Feb 9, 2023
0
63