Immune system offers clues to cancer treatmentMolecular signatures hint at who will benefit from next-generation cancer drugs.doi:10.1038/nature.2014.16395Heidi LedfordNature
“This describes a new concept of immunogenic cell injury rather than immunogenic cell death for cancer treatment,” Yaffe says. “We showed that if you treated tumor cells in a dish, when you injected them back directly into the tumor and gave checkpoint blockade inhibitors, the live, injured...
A groundbreaking study has revealed that the immune system plays a crucial role in determining the survival chances of cancer patients. Researchers fromUniversity College London (UCL) and the Francis Crick Institutefound that individuals with a higher number of immune cells in their blood ...
cancer progression. Consequently, cancer treatment is undergoing a paradigm shift: in addition to targeting cancer cells, new therapeutic modalities, such as immune checkpoint inhibitors, harness the power of the immune system to fight cancer. However, major challenges hinder the progress of immuno-...
The interaction between cancer and immune cells is a key area of research and an expanding therapeutic approachWhy is the immune system important for cancer research? Immune evasion and chronic inflammation are both hallmarks of cancer as defined by Hanahan and Weinberg. Solid tumours are composed ...
NKore is using a proprietary approach to “Supercharging” Natural Killer Cells to treatment of cancer in patients of all ages.
Innovative cancer treatment is quickly developing. Immuno-oncology holds the promise of treating certain forms of cancer, such as prostate cancer and melanoma, by leveraging the power of the human immune system. The human immune system is our built-in natural defense mechanism which eliminates ...
For cancer to develop, your immune system must be worn out and ineffective. Making it unable to kill cancer cells as fast as they develop. Or you must have been exposed to a great deal of cancer causing toxins, radiation or some such thing. These can increase the development of cancer ce...
These five science-backed tips can help keep your immune system as strong as possible during cancer treatment. 1. Sleep Well Aim for 7 hours ofsleepa night. It isn’t bad to get less sometimes, but if you don’t get enough most nights, it could strain your system. That means you’ll...
Virtually all successful treatments of cancer either create, restore or enhance the antitumour immune response. Therefore, the specific features of the immune microenvironment, both before and after treatment, are important determinants of patients' outc