Immunotherapy

News digest – 8 new grand cancer challenges, blood tests, personalising immunotherapy and… ‘go natural’?

Anne Li                             6/30/2017                             [email protected]   This week, Cancer Research UK's News Digest gives us updates on 8 new grand cancer challenges, blood…...

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Lung cancer discovery points to a better way to personalise immunotherapy

Anne Li                         6/30/2017                                [email protected]   Treatments that harness the power of the immune system against cancer are an exciting area that’s seen an…...

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Targeting immune cells that help tumors stay hidden could improve immunotherapy

Anne Li                              6/17/17   Researchers at University of Pittsburgh School of medicine and UPMC have discovereda clue that could unlock the potential of immunotherapy drugs to successfully treat more cancers. The finding, published in Cell, were…...

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Certain genetic faults could help predict success of immunotherapy

Anne Li                                      6/9/17   A certain group of genetic faults could be used to help predict if immunotherapy will work in cancer patients, according to a new US study. The research from…...

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Combining immunotherapies could benefit some aggressive breast cancers

Anne Li                          6/9/17   Using two immunotherapy drugs together could help treat some patients with an aggressive form of breast cancer, according to an Australian study.  Researchers at Walter and Eliza Hall Institute and Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre…...

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Combined immunotherapy could help control melanoma that has spread to the brain

Anne LI                            6/9/17   A combination of two immunotherapy drugs is safe to give to patients with melanoma, a type of skin cancer, that has spread to the brain, and could help control the disease. Melanomas that…...

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Antibody for fighting cancer emerges

Anne Li                                 5/20/17   While studying the underpinnings of multiple sclerosis, investigators came across important clues for how to treat a very different disease: cancer. Researchers describe an antibody that can precisely target regulatory…...

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News digest – a new idea to tackle brain tumours, 3D printed ovaries, sunscreen and… breast milk?

Anne Li                                5/20/17   This week, Cancer Research UK's News Digest gives us updates on Zika virus, sunscreen, immunotherapy drugs, smoking, obesity, 3D printing, bowel cancer, and finally….. breast milk? This week's number is 5,…...

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Competition between immune cells could explain why some immunotherapy drugs fail

Anne Li                                                                                               May…...

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Process to better understand how advanced melanoma adapts to immunotherapy

Anne Li                                                                                                May…...

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