The elderly react well to immunotherapy despite age -related immune system differences, researchers find
Older adults with cancer react as well as younger patients to immune control point inhibitors despite age -related immune system ...
Tag: immunotherapy
Biomarker can predict response to immunotherapy in liver cancer
It may soon be possible to determine which patients with a type of liver cancer called hepatocellular carcinoma would benefit ...
Immunotherapy increases survival for advanced Hodgkin lymphoma in clinical trial
A treatment that harnesses the immune system to destroy cancer has increased the survival rate of patients with advanced Hodgkin ...
Personalized bacterial vaccine shows promise as cancer immunotherapy
Columbia researchers have engineered probiotic bacteria that teach the immune system to destroy cancer cells, opening the door to a ...
Dual immunotherapy and chemotherapy prove beneficial for specific subgroup of lung cancer patients
Researchers at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have demonstrated that patients with metastatic non-squamous non-small cell lung ...
Disrupting the Asxl1 gene prevents T cell exhaustion to improve immunotherapy, researchers find
Immunotherapy, which uses the patient's own immune system to treat disease, has shown promise in some cancer patients but has ...
Epigenetic test could help predict effectiveness of immunotherapy in multiple myeloma
Multiple myeloma is a type of blood cancer that mainly appears after age 60. Its incidence therefore increases with the ...
Harnessing natural killer T cells to advance cancer immunotherapy of solid tumors
In the fight against cancer, chimeric antigen receptor T cell (CAR-T) therapy has achieved notable success in the treatment of ...
Researchers create first large-scale atlas of how immune cells respond to mutations during cancer immunotherapy
A Cleveland Clinic-led research collaboration between Timothy Chan, MD, Ph.D., chairman of the Cleveland Clinic Global Center for Immunotherapy, and ...
Immunotherapy for gum disease? A study in mice is promising
Targeting the immune system could prevent or treat periodontal disease (PD), a common but serious gum disease, according to a ...
