Immunotherapy
AI hits another milestone; to determine if lung patients benefit from immunotherapy
Artificial Intelligence to determine whether immunotherapy is working.
Tackling pollen allergies this spring season
Experts believe that pollen allergies will only worsen with global warming, as pollen seasons are bound to get longer and pollen counts higher.
Device smaller than rice grain to deliver cancer therapy sans side effects: Study
Nanofluidic seed to deliver one-time, sustained-release dose that would eliminate need for patients to undergo several treatments.
T cell behavior has major implications for cancer immunotherapy
Study found that critical white blood cells, which attack and kill the infection, did not rely on glucose to fuel their rapid division.
Switching off protein may boost efficacy of cancer treatment: Study
Immunotherapy is a type of cancer treatment that boosts the body's natural defences to fight cancer.
Hormone that prevents chemotherapy side-effects identified
Because follistatin is a hormone already found in the human body, there is much less potential for toxicity.
Not all cancer drugs work
DNA methylation is an epigenetic mechanism that plays a key role in switching genes "on" or "off".
'Slow but sure' progress toward less toxic tools to fight cancer
An immunotherapy treatment is highly effective in a minority of patients.
New subtype of prostate cancer discovered
It could also explain why some prostate cancer patients have had exceptional responses to immunotherapy.
Woman cured of advanced breast cancer through immunotherapy in world first
Treatment already works in some people with cancer of the lung, cervix, blood cells (leukaemia), skin (melanoma) and bladder.