In 10 seconds? Good news for kidney cancer patients! Research has revealed a new combination treatment strategy that can significantly delay cancer progression and improve patient survival. What do you mean by ‘combination treatm...
In 10 seconds? New research suggests that certain tests could determine if Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors (ICIs) will have unwanted side effects on individual cancer patients. Why is that a big deal? ICIs have revolutionized cancer...
In 10 seconds? Ferroptosis is a recently discovered mechanism of cell death. Scientists are exploring ways that ferroptosis – meaning iron death - could be induced to treat drug-resistant cancers. What do you mean by ‘mechanism o...
In 10 seconds? Skin cancer patients have greatly benefited from multiple cancer immunotherapy treatments, but it’s been unclear which treatments are superior. A new head-to-head study reveals that tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte (TI...
In 10 seconds? Very low doses of cancer treatments called immune checkpoint inhibitors have been shown to extend the survival of patients with head and neck cancers in India. These exciting results show promise that this type of t...
In 10 seconds? Triple-negative breast cancer is one of the most difficult to treat subtypes of breast cancer. Recently, ‘combination therapy’ treatment approaches have shown promise in better treating these aggressive tumors. Can...
In 10 seconds? We continue our chat about cancer immune checkpoint therapies–which help our immune system attack cancer. One area showing progress is the quest for discrete biological features (AKA biomarkers) that indicate positi...
In 10 seconds? Immune checkpoint inhibitors are recently developed cancer immunotherapies that have helped treat advanced-stage cancers–such as skin and lung cancer. What’s the story? In our last Immunity vs Cancer digest, we lea...