New treatment options for cancer have flowed from our knowledge of how cells work, including the realisation the patient’s own immune system is a powerful agent in defeating cancer.
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Jimmy Carter is now cancer-free, but is it right to say that he’s been cured?
New immunotherapy drugs that enhance the body’s natural ability to fight cancer offer several key advantages over previous treatments.
Take two of medicine’s great foes and pit them against each other.
If you can’t find the specific T cells you need to fight a cancer, make them.
Immunotherapy has joined anti-retroviral drug therapy as a means to combat HIV.
Drugs that help the immune system recognise cancer are very promising.
Immune cells in the blood primarily defend us against infection. But we’re now learning that these cells can also keep us free from cancer. Patients with less efficient immune systems such as organ transplant…
The trouble with treating cancer is that each type has its own quirks. The quirks of pancreatic cancer make it one of the most lethal. The survival period after diagnosis is only four to six months. The…
Immunotherapy is treatment that boosts the body’s immune system by producing more infection-fighting agents, such as white blood cells and antibodies, to help fight disease. While it may seem a modern…
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