Science news articles about 'immunotherapy for cancer'

... cancer, and go after it. She continues, "What is needed is effective and non-toxic immunotherapy for cancer patients, and we believe this work provides a foundation for that. The concepts we have ...

... today in Nature Medicine (DOI: 10.1038/nm.1953), demonstrate the tantalizing potential of immunotherapy in cancer treatment, says principal investigator Dr. Pamela Ohashi, co-director, CFIBCR. In ...

... immune system's defeats. This adds an additional hurdle to overcome for new cancer treatments called immunotherapies that are meant to work by stimulating the patient's immune system to attack tumor ...

... In advance of the meeting, ASCO published the findings online on May 14. Maris explained that immunotherapy for cancer involves triggering the body's immune system to attack cancer cells. Monoclonal ...