Cancer Articles
Early data from a Phase II clinical trial show a combination of immunotherapy medications can activate a robust immune response and help overcome treatment resistance in patients with refractory melanoma.
A study has found that for patients with certain types of advanced lung or skin cancer, administration of a SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine within 100 days of starting immune checkpoint inhibitors is associated with increased overall survival.
New research has found that patients with advanced lung or skin cancer who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine within 100 days of starting immunotherapy drugs lived significantly longer than those who did not get the vaccine.
Early clinical and preclinical results are showing that an experimental mRNA and nanoparticle vaccine produced measurable immune responses against pancreatic cancer, and that in small patient groups, those immune responses correlated with delayed recurrence or prolonged survival.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted fast track designation for Greenwich LifeSciences’ lead immunotherapy candidate GLSI-100 in HLA-A*02–positive, HER2-positive breast cancer patients who have completed standard HER2-targeted therapy.
A new study led by a team of researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center reveals lymphoma can accelerate the biological aging of the immune system and other tissues, providing new insight into how cancer reshapes the body beyond tumor growth.
Results of a Dana-Farber Cancer Institute-initiated Phase I clinical trial for patients with melanoma show that an updated formula and delivery of the NeoVax personalized cancer vaccine called NeoVaxMI is safe, feasible and improves the vaccine-specific immune response compared to previous trials of the platform.
Pembrolizumab, an immune checkpoint inhibitor, has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat patients with resectable locally advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma whose tumors express PD-L1 (combined positive score [CPS] ≥1) as determined by an FDA-approved test.
A new study published in the journal Nature found that a personalized vaccine, named autogene cevumeran, is showing promising results for treating pancreatic cancer, one of the deadliest malignancies.
Scientists at the University of Cambridge, who have been investigating how certain common medications might hold back the movement of cancer cells, have found that daily low-dose aspirin use could curb the spread of certain cancers, including breast and prostate tumors.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted fast track designation for its lead clinical-stage program, IMM-1-104, as a treatment for patients with unresectable or metastatic NRAS-mutant melanoma who have progressed on or are intolerant to PD-1/PD-L1-based immune checkpoint inhibitors.
Scientists from RMIT University and the Doherty Institute in Australia have developed a new blood test that could screen cancer patients to help make their treatment safer and more effective.