The latest immunotherapy news and developments
Taking the itch out of cancer immunotherapy
Using the body’s immune system to fight cancer has great potential, but can also bring…
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Groundbreaking study on trained immunity to fight cancer
Until recently, it was believed that the innate immune system, the body’s first line of…
ICR calls for change to bring immunotherapies to more cancer patients
Major changes to the way immunotherapy drugs are researched and evaluated are essential if they…
Model could improve design of vaccines and immunotherapies
The body’s immune system defeats diseases by sensing foreign invaders, like bacteria or viruses, and…
New map of the immune landscape in pancreatic cancer could guide immunotherapy
Frustratingly, pancreatic cancer has remained resistant to immunotherapies that are revolutionising the treatment of many…
Melanoma ‘deceives’ the immune system, increasing resistance to immunotherapy
The sophisticated human immune system has evolved to become an effective protection system against a…
New approach to fighting cancer could reduce costs and side effects
UniSA’s Future Industries Institute Ph.D. student Mona Elsemary has developed a microfluidic approach to purify…
ENA 2020: Existing heart drugs may help cancer patients respond better to PD(L)1 immunotherapy
Researchers have found that a class of commonly-used heart drugs may also improve patients’ responses…
Immunotherapy combo halts rare, stage 4 sarcoma in teen
A patient with end-stage and rapidly progressing soft-tissue cancer whose tumour did not respond to…
Neo-adjuvant immunotherapy combination effective for non-metastatic bladder cancer
In the scientific journal Nature Medicine, researchers at the Netherlands show that neoadjuvant immunotherapy using a…