The parasite responsible for toxoplasmosis could help treat certain cancers
Injected into solid tumors, Toxoplasma gondii, the parasite responsible for toxoplasmosis, would block their growth and make them more sensitive ...
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Will immunotherapy be able to cure more cancers tomorrow?
By combining chemotherapy, tumor lesions and immunotherapy, American scientists at MIT managed to reactivate the immune system in mice and ...
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Innovative drugs: how to set their “fair price”?
Is the price of innovative drugs an obstacle to ensuring that each patient receives the best care? The point on ...
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Acute myeloid leukemia: efficacy of a combination of immunotherapy and chemotherapy
Researchers from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center show that combining immunotherapy and chemotherapy can reduce mortality in ...
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Cancer: a vaccine against gastroenteritis to overcome resistance to immunotherapies
Inserm researchers have just demonstrated the effectiveness of the vaccine against gastroenteritis in the fight against cancer. The latter would ...
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A new way to treat peanut allergy
A hope for all allergy sufferers who fear being accidentally exposed to peanuts. A sublingual immunotherapy trial showed very promising ...
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Cancer: acting on the immune system before the disease occurs
For the first time, a French team has succeeded in predicting the development of lung cancer by measuring the immune ...
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Peanut allergy: Oral immunotherapy increases serious side effects
Oral immunotherapy would not be effective on people allergic to peanuts. On the contrary, it would increase the risk of ...
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Myasthenia gravis: potentially effective immunotherapy
Anti-PD-L1 immunotherapies, already used in cancer, could be the key to treating severe forms of myasthenia gravis, an autoimmune muscle ...
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Treatment of early-stage lung cancer: towards a change in strategy?
A team of scientists confirms that immunotherapy given at the early stage of lung cancer, and before surgery, reduces the ...
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Multiple sclerosis: rituximab, an old treatment not reimbursed more effective than the new ones
Many treatments, acting at different levels of the immune system, are available to fight multiple sclerosis. A Swedish study looked ...
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Immunotherapy represents a new solution in advanced esophageal cancer
Immunotherapy brings real hope in advanced esophageal cancer. A disease that no current chemotherapy can stabilize.Patients with advanced cancer of ...
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Infectious diseases: Bill Gates releases $ 40 million
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grants $ 40 million to a British company. This is developing a new form ...
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Melanoma: two treatments prevent recurrence
Innovative cancer treatments can be used earlier for melanoma. After the tumor is removed, they prevent recurrence. THE ESSENTIAL Melanoma ...
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Cancer: the French underestimate the cost of treatment
The French find it difficult to assess the real cost of cancer care. Questioned by Institut Curie, they underestimate the ...
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Cancer: a mutation improves the impact of immunotherapy
Pembrolizumab immunotherapy is more effective in the presence of a genetic mutation in the tumor. Half of the patients respond ...
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Anticancer drugs: the FDA gives the green light to Keytruda
The Keytruda is authorized in the United States. For the first time, the authorities do not give an indication for ...
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Immunotherapy: the richness of the microbiota plays a role in efficiency
The variety of the microbiota influences the response to immunotherapy against melanoma. A varied intestinal flora seems to improve the ...
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Brain cancer: effective immunotherapy
Educating blood cells to defend themselves against tumors: this is the approach tested in a patient with a metastasized brain ...
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Bladder cancer: immunotherapies keep their promise
Immunotherapies could become a new standard of care for patients who have relapsed, or who are not eligible for chemotherapy.Bladder ...
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