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Gut Bacteria Composition May Determine Melanoma Patients’ Response to Anti-PD-1 Immunotherapy – Melanoma News Today

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Gut Bacteria Composition May Determine Melanoma Patients’ Response to Anti-PD-1 Immunotherapy
Melanoma News Today
The presence of a specific bacteria in the gut of patients with melanoma, as well as a greater diversity of gut bacteria, are associated with a better response to anti-PD-1 immunotherapy. Understanding this relationship between a patient’s gut bacteria

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Telegraph.co.uk

Terminal cancer patients in complete remission after one gene therapy treatment
Telegraph.co.uk
A groundbreaking gene therapy treatment which boosts a patient’s own immune cells has been shown to clear disease from one third of terminal patients. US pharmaceutical company Kite Pharma released results from the first six months of its trial of the
Gene Therapy Shows Promise for Aggressive LymphomaEveryday Health (blog)
New gene therapy ‘shrinks tumours like ice cubes’The Times (subscription)
Gene therapy extraordinary at fighting blood cancerNew Zealand Herald
Mirror.co.uk –Kite Pharma, Inc. | Investor Relations
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Telegraph.co.uk

Terminal cancer patients in complete remission after one gene therapy treatment
Telegraph.co.uk
A groundbreaking gene therapy treatment which boosts a patient’s own immune cells has been shown to clear disease from one third of terminal patients. US pharmaceutical company Kite Pharma released results from the first six months of its trial of the
Gene Therapy Shows Promise for Aggressive LymphomaEveryday Health (blog)
New gene therapy ‘shrinks tumours like ice cubes’The Times (subscription)
Gene therapy extraordinary at fighting blood cancerNew Zealand Herald
Mirror.co.uk
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Xconomy

With Eye On FDA, Kite Says CART For Lymphoma Holds Up After 6 Months
Xconomy
The patients were treated with a single dose of their own T cells and no other follow-up treatments, according to Kite officials. In CART cell therapy, a patients’ T cells are extracted and genetically modified outside the body to become more
Kite’s CART cancer therapy shows strong results as company races to win FDA approvalSTAT
Kite Pharma CART Cancer Therapy Shows Strong, Durable Effect in Lymphoma PatientsTheStreet.com
Kite’s shares fly high after cancer drug clears main study goalCNBC
Telegraph.co.uk –Endpoints News
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Single infusion of anti-CD19 CAR T-cells confers high response rate in aggressive non-Hodgkin lymphoma
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The ZUMA-1 trial designed to evaluate axicabtagene ciloleucel in patients with chemorefractory aggressive B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma met its primary endpoint of overall response rate, according to the drug’s manufacturer.

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Medscape

Stem Cell Transplantation May Decrease MS-Related Fatigue
Medscape
ORLANDO — Along with decreasing inflammatory activity in patients with severe multiple sclerosis (MS), immunoablation and autologous hematopoietic stemcell transplantation (aHSCT) may reduce MS-related fatigue, new research suggests.