Oncology & Cancer
Confining cell-killing treatments to tumors
Cytokines, small proteins released by immune cells to communicate with each other, have for some time been investigated as a potential cancer treatment.
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Oncology & Cancer
Primary findings from first-in-human immunotherapy trial show promise in treating neuroblastoma
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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UCSD patient gets first cancer treatment made from stem cells
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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Cancer preventive vaccine showed promising results in preclinical model of Lynch syndrome
Vaccination with as few as four tumor antigens generated antigen-specific responses, reduced intestinal tumors, and improved survival in a mouse model of Lynch syndrome, suggesting that it may be possible to develop a cancer ...
Apr 1, 2019
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Mesothelin-targeted CAR T-cell therapy shows early promise in patients with solid tumors
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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Immunology
Study uncovers key parts of mechanism for activating T cells to fight cancer and other diseases
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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Oncology & Cancer
Boosting cancer therapy with cross-dressed immune cells
Researchers at EPFL have created artificial molecules that can help the immune system to recognize and attack cancer tumors. The study is published in Nature Methods.
Jan 22, 2018
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New technique could reveal immunotherapy targets, study finds
Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and their colleagues have developed a way to pinpoint potential targets for cancer therapies that rely on the body's immune system.
Dec 21, 2017
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Monocytes have many faces
When the immune system mobilizes its troops, antigen-presenting cells play an important role. They emerge from white blood cells (monocytes) that circulate in the blood. An international research team under the leadership ...
Dec 20, 2017
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Oncology & Cancer
'Double decker' antibody technology fights cancer
Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have created a new class of antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs), using a versatile "double decker" technology that ties antibodies and a drug together ...
Oct 25, 2017
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