Surviving MesotheliomaSecond-Line Immunotherapy Treatment Fails to Improve Mesothelioma SurvivalSurviving MesotheliomaA large international clinical trial of the immunotherapy drug tremelimumab as a second- or third-line treatment option for malignant … Continue reading
The San Diego Union-Tribune |
Companies Rush to Develop ‘Utterly Transformative’ Gene Therapies
New York Times Gene therapy for cancer is becoming a reality but works best for blood cancers like leukemia and not yet in more common ones like lung cancer. Cancer stem cells target of new grant to UCSD scientists – The San …The San Diego Union-Tribune |
PhillyVoice.com |
Cancer patients’ gray hair darkened on immunotherapy drugs
PhillyVoice.com Chemotherapy is notorious for making hair fall out, but the 14 patients involved were all being treated with new immunotherapy drugs that work differently and have different side effects. A Spanish study suggests that may include restoring hair pigment … Cancer patients’ gray hair darkened on immune drugsNBC4i.com |
Sun Sentinel |
Government website steers patients to unproven medical treatments
Sun Sentinel ClinicalTrials.gov, the federal government’s public listing of medical trials, is providing false comfort to consumers and free advertising to for-profit stem cell clinics offering unproven and loosely regulated treatments, a Sun Sentinel investigation … |
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COX-2 Inhibitors May Improve Cancer Immunotherapy Response
Immuno-Oncology News “Our studies provide a clear rationale to test, in the clinics, combinations of anti-PD1 immunotherapy and COX-2 inhibitors,” Van den Eynde said. “This should be straightforward given the fact that both anti-PD1 and COX-2 inhibitors are already … |
Daily Mail |
Groom, 51, who donated his stem cells eight years ago chooses the person whose life he saved as his best man
Daily Mail The transplant would involve stem cells being extracted from the donor’s bone marrow and then infused into Brett, to grow into healthy new blood cells and replace his failing immune system. Brett and his wife Janice, 61, were told that if a suitable … |