Treatment breakthrough for advanced bladder cancer
Wednesday, November 26, 2014 - 15:30
in Health & Medicine
A major breakthrough in developing a new therapy for advanced bladder cancer -- for which there have been no major treatment advances in the past 30 years -- has been made by scientists. The study examined an antibody (MPDL3280A) which blocks a protein (PD-L1) thought to help cancer cells evade immune detection.