Incidence of lung cancer Lung cancer has the highest incidence of cancer in the world. According to WHO’ statistics, there are an estimated 18.1 million new cancer patients worldwide in 2018, ofRead More…
The high cost of cancer drugs makes it difficult for public and private health care systems to provide patients with up-to-date treatment. If this trend continues, it will be increasingly difficult forRead More…
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), cancer is the second leading cause of death in the world. In 2018 alone, 9.6 million people worldwide died of cancer, accounting for about 1/6Read More…
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) evades the body’s immune defenses through multiple mutations, and antibodies produced by the host immune system against HIV follow complex and untraceable evolutionary pathways. This complexity makesRead More…
In a recent study published in an international magazine of Immunity, scientists at the University of Southampton have developed a new antibody that could hold the key to unlocking cancers’ defense againstRead More…
On May 17, 2018, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved erenumab-aooe (Aimovig) for the preventive treatment of migraine in adults. Erenumab is a human monoclonal antibody that targets calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) receptor,Read More…
Immunotherapy with checkpoint inhibitors is more effective in cancer patients who have elevated numbers of specific types of immune cells inside their tumors, a study suggests. Patients with a favorable combination of immuneRead More…
The receptors, found in so-called elite controllers who don’t need medications to keep the virus in check, suggest a new path toward immunotherapy. Researchers trying to develop new treatments, or even aRead More…
Unlike the mechanism of action of traditional treatments, immunotherapy is uniquely characterized by its long-term response and survival in efficacy, unconventional delayed response and pseudo-progression in response mode, a new assessment endpointRead More…
Immunotherapy has become a new hope against cancer. CAR-T cell therapy is achieved by using genetic engineering method to express chimeric antigen receptors on T cells obtained from donner patients. These chimericRead More…