immunotherapy tag - The Hippocratic Post

February 19, 2025

Cancer immunotherapy treatment dramatically reduces sunspots

Cancer immunotherapy treatment dramatically reduces sunspots - University of Queensland researchers have discovered immunotherapy, when used to treat people with advanced cancers, also helps reduce...

March 10, 2023

Immunotherapy: Algorithm spots patients likely to respond

Scientists have developed a new way of using cancers’ DNA to spot cancer patients who may benefit from immunotherapy. Researchers developed a computer algorithm to...

July 21, 2021

Skin cancer: new immunotherapy treatment

Skin cancer: new immunotherapy treatment strategies improve prognosis – but prevention is still essential: Immunotherapy has revolutionised the treatment of inoperable, metastasised skin cancer. More...

July 9, 2021

Lung cancer immunotherapy treatment

Potential marker for success of immunotherapy in the treatment of lung cancer: Lung cancer has the highest mortality rate of all cancers, and treatment options...

April 5, 2021

High thrombotic risk in cancer patients receiving immunotherapy

High thrombotic risk in cancer patients receiving immunotherapy: In a study recently published in the leading journal "Blood", Florian Moik and Cihan Ay from the...

July 23, 2020

Immune system could be trained to spot drug-resistant cancers

Aggressive cancers could be treated with immunotherapies that direct the immune system to kill cancer cells with specific drug resistance-causing mutations, a major new study...

November 25, 2019

Immunotherapy Backed as Standard First-line Treatment for Head and Neck Cancer

Immunotherapy pembrolizumab keeps some patients alive for three years or more Pembrolizumab either used alone or in combination with chemotherapy was more effective than a...

February 13, 2017

Longer immunotherapy for hay fever

Immunotherapy, which was first trialled on hay fever patients in London in 1911, has an excellent record in helping reduce allergy symptoms. But how long...