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The big question: Will cancer immune therapy work for me? – WTOP

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2017-09-20 NEWS

WTOP

The big question: Will cancer immune therapy work for me?
WTOP
Immunotherapy is the hottest thing in cancer treatment, but it’s not for everyone. It can put some very advanced, thought-to-be-terminal cancers into remission, but for some unlucky folks, it can make their cancer much worse. Gene tests now are helping

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2017-09-20 NEWS

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‘Game changing’ immunotherapy drug denied to AA Gill gets go ahead
Telegraph.co.uk
He received chemotherapy on the NHS but could not access the immunotherapy drug nivolumab because it was not approved on the NHS. The drug was among those hailed as a “spectacular” new class of drugs, which harness the body’s immune system.
ICR reacts to decision to make the immunotherapy nivolumab available on the Cancer Drugs Fund for non-small cell …The Institute of Cancer Research
Life-extending lung cancer drug approvedBBC News
AA Gill cancer drug available on the NHS at last: Life-extending treatment denied to restaurant critic is finally Daily Mail
The Times –Channel NewsAsia
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2017-09-20 NEWS

Telegraph.co.uk

‘Game changing’ immunotherapy drug denied to AA Gill gets go ahead
Telegraph.co.uk
He received chemotherapy on the NHS but could not access the immunotherapy drug nivolumab because it was not approved on the NHS. The drug was among those hailed as a “spectacular” new class of drugs, which harness the body’s immune system.
ICR reacts to decision to make the immunotherapy nivolumab available on the Cancer Drugs Fund for non-small cell …The Institute of Cancer Research
Life-extending lung cancer drug approvedBBC News
AA Gill cancer drug available on the NHS at last: Life-extending treatment denied to restaurant critic is finally Daily Mail
Nasdaq –The Pharma Letter (registration)
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2017-09-20 NEWS

OZY

Could Sea Creature Slime and Stem Cells Put an End to Scars?
OZY
In Brazil, burn victims are being dressed in strips of sterilized tilapia, while in New York, a biotech firm has developed a stem cell gun that sprays a water-based solution containing stem cells harvested from a small patch of the patient’s skin on

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2017-09-20 NEWS

Fall River lab working on cutting-edge gene therapy
Fall River Herald News
FALL RIVER — A gene therapy treatment manufactured at MassBiologics in Fall River could soon improve quality of life for people with advanced Parkinson’s disease. The therapy is the first product to come out of the biological medicine laboratory’s

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2017-09-19 NEWS

Kyoto researchers make mice egg cells from stem cells by adding vitamin A, protein
The Japan Times
KYOTO – Researchers in Japan successfully created mouse egg cells from stem cells by adding vitamin A and protein, making progress toward technology that may be useful in human fertility treatment, a study published in a European science journal …

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2017-09-19 NEWS

Kyoto researchers make mice egg cells from stem cells by adding vitamin A, protein
The Japan Times
KYOTO – Researchers in Japan successfully created mouse egg cells from stem cells by adding vitamin A and protein, making progress toward technology that may be useful in human fertility treatment, a study published in a European science journal …