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NCI study advances personalized immunotherapy for metastatic breast cancer

October 29, 2022

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Breast Cancer, Cancer-General, Drugs & Therapy

An experimental form of immunotherapy that uses an individual’s own tumor-fighting immune cells could potentially be used to treat people with metastatic breast cancer, according to results from an ongoing clinical trial led by researchers at the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) Center for Cancer Research.

Early Cancer Therapeutics Group

October 29, 2022

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Breast Cancer, Drugs & Therapy

The Early Cancer Therapeutics Group at Mayo Clinic offers patients whose cancers haven’t responded to standard chemotherapy or other treatments the opportunity to join an early-phase clinical trial of a potential new treatment.

How Keytruda Cancer Treatment Works (Update)

July 23, 2022

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Drugs & Therapy, Featured, Lung Cancer, Video

Keytruda (pembrolizumab) is an immunotherapy cancer treatment that stimulates the patient’s immune system to help fight certain types of cancers. Because cancer cells can use certain proteins, like the PD-1 protein, to shield themselves from detection, this enables cancer cells to grow and spread.

Oncologist Discusses Immunotherapy Cancer Treatment

July 25, 2017

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Drugs & Therapy, Lung Cancer, Video

Opdivo (nivolumab) is an FDA- approved immunotherapy cancer drug treatment that is showing great promise for treating various types of cancer, including melanoma, lung cancer, kidney cancer and Hodgkin lymphoma. As a disease, cancer escapes the immune system by producing certain proteins that can hide it.

Cancer Research and Questions to Ask Before Cancer Treatment

July 18, 2017

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Cancer-General, Drugs & Therapy, Video

In this resource for patients, Dr. Peter Glidden explains why we still have a ‘war on cancer’ when it was started more than 40 years ago

Lung Cancer Treatment and Natural Solution Options

July 4, 2017

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Drugs & Therapy, Featured, Lung Cancer, Video

Dr. Bergman explains the mechanism of how all cancers develop and specific cancer treatment solutions, ways to naturally prevent and cure lung cancer, and alternatives to taking medicine for cancer.

Immunotherapy and Answers in the Treatment for Cancer

July 4, 2017

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Drugs & Therapy, Video

Dr. Jedd Wolchok, Chief, Melanoma and Immunotherapeutic Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, with Alex Wagner, Senior Editor, The Atlantic, discuss the promise of immunotherapy in oncology and the search for answers in the treatment for cancer.

Immunotherapy and cancer drugs to treat tumor cells

July 2, 2017

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Cancer-General, Drugs & Therapy, Video

This animation created by Nature Reviews Cancer and Nature Reviews Immunology illustrates how tumor cells are sensed and destroyed by cells of the immune system and how tumors can evolve to evade immune-mediated elimination.

Dr. Popat Explains Lung Cancer Treatments and Cancer Drugs

July 2, 2017

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Drugs & Therapy, Lung Cancer, Video

Dr. Sanjay Popat talks about how treatment for lung cancer patients has transformed their lives in recent years thanks to a host of promising new cancer treatments and cancer drugs.

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NCI study advances personalized immunotherapy for metastatic breast cancer

Early Cancer Therapeutics Group

How Keytruda Cancer Treatment Works (Update)

Oncologist Discusses Immunotherapy Cancer Treatment

Cancer Research and Questions to Ask Before Cancer Treatment

Lung Cancer Treatment and Natural Solution Options

Immunotherapy and Answers in the Treatment for Cancer

Immunotherapy and cancer drugs to treat tumor cells

Dr. Popat Explains Lung Cancer Treatments and Cancer Drugs

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