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Can Diet Cure Cancer: Our Expert Refutes Navjot Singh Sidhu's Claim
Cancer treatments like chemotherapy, radiation, surgery, and immunotherapy are designed to attack the disease at a molecular level, something food cannot achieve.
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Study Finds Severe Covid Response Could Help Shrink Tumors
A groundbreaking study suggests severe COVID infections may generate special immune cells capable of shrinking advanced cancers in mice, opening doors to innovative cancer treatments.
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Management Strategies In Immunotherapy For Cancer Patients
From monitoring treatment response to managing immune-related adverse events (irAEs), healthcare providers must navigate a complex landscape to optimize patient outcomes.
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New Hope For Bowel Cancer: Immunotherapy Drug Offers Cure Without Surgery
A groundbreaking immunotherapy drug, Pembrolizumab (Keytruda), shows promising results in treating bowel cancer by targeting specific immune cell proteins.
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UK Woman Wrongly Diagnosed With Cancer For Two Years, Wins Compensation
Megan was told she had been wrongly diagnosed with cancer after undergoing almost two years of treatment and egg preservation.
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Cancer: Signs & Symptoms of Mouth Cancer One Must Not Ignore
Radiotherapy, chemotherapy and immunotherapy have all made advancements that have made treatments even more effective while causing less side effects.
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World Cancer Day 2021: Is Immunotherapy Changing The Future Of Lung Cancer?
In progressive lung cancer, chemotherapy gives modest advantage as most of the patients survive only a few months to a year. Chemotherapy can't be considered as a standard of care. Now, immunotherapy is changing the scenario of lung cancer treatment.
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What To Do When A Cancer Patient Tests Positive For COVID-19?
Anti-cancer treatments like chemotherapy, targeted therapy and immunotherapy have an adverse effect on the immunity status of a cancer patient making them prone to the infection and also worse outcomes if they have COVID-19.
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Lung Cancer - Targeted Therapy Brings New Hope For Its Treatment, Says Expert
Targeted therapies use drugs or other substances to 'target' the cancer cells more precisely and avoid any damage to surrounding normal cells. Targeted therapy iseffective for non-small cell lung cancer.
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"Our Economic Cancer Needs...": Biocon Chief Kiran Shaw Ahead Of Budget
Biocon chief Kiran Shaw tweeted ahead of the Union Budget - to be presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman -, describing the slowdown as "cancer" and urging the government to treat it with "immunotherapy not chemotherapy"
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Study Finds 'Helper' Cells That Can Kill Cancerous Tumours
According to the study, T cells are a subset of lymphocytes (white blood cells), which play a key role in the body's immune response. In immunotherapy T cells are modified and used to attack cancer. These cells move around our bodies, looking for infected cells and killing them.
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Researchers Now A Step Closer To Potential New Cancer Treatment
A potential new cancer immunotherapy target that involves switching off a regulatory cell to stop tumours growing and spreading has been developed by researchers.
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Chinese Scientists Develop Tumour-Specific Anti-Cancer Therapy
A team led by Wang Dangge from Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica under the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Fudan University developed a common immune checkpoint inhibitor in a nanoparticle formulation, which is highly tumor-specific.
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Medical Science Close To Beating Cancer: Study
"Tumours are smart, but we are really close to beating them and to making our bodies better able to fight them," Giamp aolo Tortora, director of the Medical Oncology at Rome's Policlinico Gemelli's teaching hospital, told Adnkronos Salute in an interview.
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James Allison, Tasuku Honjo Win Nobel Prize In Medicine For Cancer Immunotherapy
The American and Japanese researchers discovered methods of removing the brakes on cells that fight invaders, paving the way for cancer immunotherapy, which has joined surgery, radiation and chemotherapy as a major weapon in the battle against cancer.
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Can Diet Cure Cancer: Our Expert Refutes Navjot Singh Sidhu's Claim
Cancer treatments like chemotherapy, radiation, surgery, and immunotherapy are designed to attack the disease at a molecular level, something food cannot achieve.
-
Study Finds Severe Covid Response Could Help Shrink Tumors
A groundbreaking study suggests severe COVID infections may generate special immune cells capable of shrinking advanced cancers in mice, opening doors to innovative cancer treatments.
-
Management Strategies In Immunotherapy For Cancer Patients
From monitoring treatment response to managing immune-related adverse events (irAEs), healthcare providers must navigate a complex landscape to optimize patient outcomes.
-
New Hope For Bowel Cancer: Immunotherapy Drug Offers Cure Without Surgery
A groundbreaking immunotherapy drug, Pembrolizumab (Keytruda), shows promising results in treating bowel cancer by targeting specific immune cell proteins.
-
UK Woman Wrongly Diagnosed With Cancer For Two Years, Wins Compensation
Megan was told she had been wrongly diagnosed with cancer after undergoing almost two years of treatment and egg preservation.
-
Cancer: Signs & Symptoms of Mouth Cancer One Must Not Ignore
Radiotherapy, chemotherapy and immunotherapy have all made advancements that have made treatments even more effective while causing less side effects.
-
World Cancer Day 2021: Is Immunotherapy Changing The Future Of Lung Cancer?
In progressive lung cancer, chemotherapy gives modest advantage as most of the patients survive only a few months to a year. Chemotherapy can't be considered as a standard of care. Now, immunotherapy is changing the scenario of lung cancer treatment.
-
What To Do When A Cancer Patient Tests Positive For COVID-19?
Anti-cancer treatments like chemotherapy, targeted therapy and immunotherapy have an adverse effect on the immunity status of a cancer patient making them prone to the infection and also worse outcomes if they have COVID-19.
-
Lung Cancer - Targeted Therapy Brings New Hope For Its Treatment, Says Expert
Targeted therapies use drugs or other substances to 'target' the cancer cells more precisely and avoid any damage to surrounding normal cells. Targeted therapy iseffective for non-small cell lung cancer.
-
"Our Economic Cancer Needs...": Biocon Chief Kiran Shaw Ahead Of Budget
Biocon chief Kiran Shaw tweeted ahead of the Union Budget - to be presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman -, describing the slowdown as "cancer" and urging the government to treat it with "immunotherapy not chemotherapy"
-
Study Finds 'Helper' Cells That Can Kill Cancerous Tumours
According to the study, T cells are a subset of lymphocytes (white blood cells), which play a key role in the body's immune response. In immunotherapy T cells are modified and used to attack cancer. These cells move around our bodies, looking for infected cells and killing them.
-
Researchers Now A Step Closer To Potential New Cancer Treatment
A potential new cancer immunotherapy target that involves switching off a regulatory cell to stop tumours growing and spreading has been developed by researchers.
-
Chinese Scientists Develop Tumour-Specific Anti-Cancer Therapy
A team led by Wang Dangge from Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica under the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Fudan University developed a common immune checkpoint inhibitor in a nanoparticle formulation, which is highly tumor-specific.
-
Medical Science Close To Beating Cancer: Study
"Tumours are smart, but we are really close to beating them and to making our bodies better able to fight them," Giamp aolo Tortora, director of the Medical Oncology at Rome's Policlinico Gemelli's teaching hospital, told Adnkronos Salute in an interview.
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James Allison, Tasuku Honjo Win Nobel Prize In Medicine For Cancer Immunotherapy
The American and Japanese researchers discovered methods of removing the brakes on cells that fight invaders, paving the way for cancer immunotherapy, which has joined surgery, radiation and chemotherapy as a major weapon in the battle against cancer.
