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Viruses may boost immunotherapy in brain and breast cancer

Anne Li                       1/5/18

 

Infecting tumours with viruses may boost the success of immunotherapy for brain and breast cancers, according to two new studies. Immunotherapy treatments can trigger impressive responses in patients with a handful of advanced cancers. But success has been limited in both brain and breast cancers. The new studies, both published in Science Translational Medicine, suggest that cancer-targeting viruses could prime these tumours for subsequent immune attack.

 

See original article at: https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-us/cancer-news/news-report/2018-01-03-viruses-may-boost-immunotherapy-in-brain-and-breast-cancer

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