Sentences with phrase «although immunotherapy treatments»

Although immunotherapy treatments that emerged in the last few years have vastly improved survival rates over previous chemotherapy treatments, metastatic MCC still has a high potential to be fatal, he says, making early detection especially vital.

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Although Coley couldn't explain precisely why or how his toxins worked, modern immunotherapy treatments help T - cells in the immune system to recognize specific cancer cells and attack them.

«Although some non-small cell lung cancer patients have increased benefit of targeted therapy or immunotherapy instead of chemotherapy, for some groups of patients with NSNSCLC, chemotherapy has been the standard treatment for more than 30 years,» Gandhi notes.

Numerous FDA - approved immunotherapies — such as Keytruda and Opdivo — have shown spectacular results, although the subset of the patient population responding to the treatment is still small.