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Ongoing Phase I clinical trial demonstrates successful re-treatment with CAR T cell therapy
Posted in Medicine on 12th Dec, 2022
by Alex Muller
CAR T therapies have revolutionized blood cancer treatment over the last decade, providing hope for patients who have run out of conventional treatment options, but patients whose cancers return or stop responding to CAR T therapy have limited options for further treatment.
Cambridge scientists develop a comprehensive tool for predicting individual's risk of prostate cancer
Posted in Medicine on 12th Dec, 2022
by Alex Muller
Cambridge scientists have created a comprehensive tool for predicting an individual's risk of developing prostate cancer, which they say could help ensure that those men at greatest risk will receive the appropriate testing.
New targeted drug shows benefit against breast cancer in first phase III trial
Posted in Medicine, Science on 12th Dec, 2022
by Alex Muller
A new type of targeted medicine has shown ‘remarkable’ benefits for patients with advanced breast cancer in a major phase III clinical trial.
Advanced cancer survival rates 'could double within a decade', say scientists
Posted in Medicine on 12th Dec, 2022
by Alex Muller
The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) says it has launched a "really exciting" five-year research strategy which hopes to "unravel and disrupt cancer's ecosystems".
New immune therapy for advanced melanoma offers hope for hard-to-treat disease
Posted in Medicine, Science on 9th Dec, 2022
by Alex Muller
TIL therapy, which uses a patient's own immune cells to fight cancer, was found in a clinical trial to work better than the existing treatment for metastatic melanoma.