Cancer Research

Merging two immunotherapies may be more effective treatment against some cancers

29 July 2020 , by Julia Evangelou Strait

Some of the most promising advances in cancer treatment have centred on immunotherapies that rev up a patient’s immune system to attack cancer. However, immunotherapies don’t work in all patients, and researchers have been searching for ways to increase their effectiveness. Now, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have combined two immunotherapy strategies […]

Researchers ID new target in drive to improve immunotherapy for head and neck cancer

29 July 2020 , By Dr. Cun-Yu Wang

Researchers at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center and UCLA School of Dentistry have identified a potential new combination therapy to treat advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, the most common type of head and neck cancer. A study in mice found that using an anti-PD1 immunotherapy drug in combination with PTC209, an inhibitor […]

Immune system could be trained to spot drug-resistant cancers

24 July 2020 , DDW editorial

Aggressive cancers could be treated with immunotherapies that direct the immune system to kill cancer cells with specific drug resistance-causing mutations, a major new study suggests. Drug resistance mutations which restore activity of the BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes as a way of avoiding the effects of drug treatment could leave tumours vulnerable to the effects […]

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