NHS Oncologist Shortage: Workforce report highlights continuing struggle to staff UK cancer centres
Annual workforce figures released today by The Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) reveal the continuing…
Browsing: Immunotherapy
Global study of pancreatic cancer offers possible insights into treatment and early detection
Aatur Singhi, University of Pittsburgh When “Jeopardy!” episode 7059 aired on April 30, 2015, the…
A single dose of a PD-1 inhibitor before surgery predicts outcomes in melanoma patients
A single dose of a PD-1 inhibitor before surgery for melanoma can put patients in…
Bioluminescent deep-sea creatures illuminate the effectiveness of new cancer therapies
Researchers have developed a new laboratory tool, which is poised to improve the development and…
Study finds melanoma brain metastases are immunosuppressive with treatment-resistant metabolism
Melanoma tumours that have spread to the brain are equipped to thwart immunotherapies and targeted…
Antibody therapy training phagocytes to destroy tumours now tested on patients
Researchers have developed an immunotherapeutic antibody therapy that re-educates macrophages to activate passivated cytotoxic T…
Study finds way to potentially improve immunotherapy for cancer
A new study has identified a drug that potentially could make a common type of…
New machine learning technique rapidly analyses nanomedicines for cancer immunotherapy
With their ability to treat a wide a variety of diseases, spherical nucleic acids (SNAs)…
Small cell lung cancer may respond to combination of immunotherapy and DNA damage repair inhibitors
Researchers have discovered that a combination of immune checkpoint blockade and targeted therapies that block…
ASCO GU 2019: Pembrolizumab Plus Axitinib Extended Overall Survival and Progression-Free Survival Versus Current Standard Treatment for Advanced Kidney Cancer
Results from the randomized, phase III KEYNOTE-426 clinical trial show that first-line therapy with a…