immunotherapy

Three Kids With Incurable Brain Tumors Are Disease-Free After First-of-Its-Kind Immune-Cell Trial

Three Kids With Incurable Brain Tumors Are Disease-Free After First-of-Its-Kind Immune-Cell Trial

Some diagnoses come with almost no hope attached. Diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, known as DIPG, is one of them — a brain cancer so aggressive that most children diagnosed with it don’t survive past two years, and surgery isn’t even an option given where it sits in the brain. So when a small team of…

New Cancer Vaccine Harnesses COVID-19 Immunity to Fight Tumors
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New Cancer Vaccine Harnesses COVID-19 Immunity to Fight Tumors

If you’ve had a COVID-19 vaccine, or caught the virus itself, part of your immune system already remembers exactly how to respond to it. New research suggests that memory could be redirected against something far more dangerous: cancer. Scientists have built a vaccine called PROTEXI that borrows your immune system’s playbook against COVID-19 and turns…

A Wearable Patch May Replace Surgery for Some Skin Cancers

A Wearable Patch May Replace Surgery for Some Skin Cancers

Surgery has been the primary treatment for melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer. While surgical removal can be highly effective, it often comes with challenges, including scarring, recovery time, and the possibility of complications. Now, researchers have developed a wearable patch that may offer a different approach—one that destroys cancer cells without a scalpel….

COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines Boost Cancer Patient Survival 5-Fold
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COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines Boost Cancer Patient Survival 5-Fold

Scientists just discovered something extraordinary about COVID-19 vaccines and cancer survival rates. Researchers at MD Anderson Cancer Center found that cancer patients who received Pfizer or Moderna mRNA vaccines within 100 days of starting immunotherapy lived substantially longer than unvaccinated patients. Lung cancer patients saw their three-year survival rates nearly double, while melanoma patients experienced…