The latest immunotherapy news and developments
Cancer treatment as a double-edged sword
Even with today’s safer and more targeted anti-cancer drugs, scientists have been unable to satisfactorily…
Browsing: Immunotherapy
Viral particles support prophylactic vaccination against breast cancer
Artificial structures of tumour antigens, so-called mimotopes, applied in vaccinations of cancer patients can trigger…
Immune-boosting gut microbes can help chemotherapy drugs
Certain microbes in the gut can help improve the effectiveness of chemotherapy drugs, according to…
‘Game-changing’ immunotherapy doubles head and neck cancer survival
An immunotherapy drug has been hailed as a potential ‘game changer’ after being found to…
Iron nanoparticles make immune cells attack cancer
Stanford researchers accidentally discovered that iron nanoparticles invented for anemia treatment have another use: triggering…
New immunotherapy for leukaemia shows promise in small clinical trial
A new type of immunotherapy shows promise against cases of acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) that…
Patients with advanced lymphoma in remission after T-cell therapy
Patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma participating in an early-phase immunotherapy trial led by Fred Hutchinson Cancer…
New immunotherapy treatment could lead to better, cheaper results for pancreatic cancer
A new immunotherapy treatment has shown dramatic results in treating advanced pancreatic cancer, a deadly…
Viral-based therapy for bone cancer
Certain cancers, including osteosarcoma (bone cancer), are unresponsive to chemotherapy, making disease prognosis very poor.…
Oxygen can impair cancer immunotherapy in mice
Researchers have identified a mechanism in mice by which anticancer immune responses are inhibited within…