Sentences with phrase «better immunotherapy treatments»

Not exact matches

U.S. drug giant Merck is paying $ 300 million in a deal possibly worth more than $ 5 billion to partner Eisai in an effort to boost its star cancer immunotherapy treatment Keytruda, which could match up well in a combination with Eisai's Lenvima.

More than 500 clinical trials are underway to explore the impact of these and other checkpoint inhibitors on a dozen varieties of cancer, alone or with other immunotherapies, as well as conventional treatments.

«With immunotherapies, there were better outcomes for deeper responses, but it didn't break down the same way as with targeted treatment against ALK - positive cancer,» Doebele says.

«Injectable immunotherapies that use programmable biomaterials as a powerful vehicle to deliver targeted treatment and preventative care could help fight a whole range of deadly infections, including common worldwide killers like HIV and Ebola, as well as cancer,» said Wyss Institute Founding Director Donald Ingber, M.D., Ph.D. who is also Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital, and Professor of Bioengineering at Harvard SEAS.

«Fortunately, the majority of cases respond very well to the current first line treatment, which is a combination of chemotherapy and immunotherapy.

«New immunotherapy treatment could lead to better, cheaper results for pancreatic cancer.»

However, researchers are still learning how best to implement immunotherapy regimens, making monitoring of the immune response during treatment development and implementation critical to predicting how the modified cells will function, and how the immune system as a whole will react.

Multiple myeloma patients got some good news on November 16 — the immunotherapy daratumumab (Darzalex ®) was given approval by the FDA for the treatment of patients with multiple myeloma who have received at least three prior lines of therapy.

But cancer immunotherapies are not universally well tolerated, and some patients receiving these treatments can experience serious side effects.

This helps doctors in every community better connect patients to immunotherapy treatment and also inform their clinical and research efforts to advance immunotherapy treatments.

Led by Christiana Davis, MD, (in collaboration with Dr. Peter Gabriel, Chief Oncology Informatics Officer and Abigail Doucette, MPH, Research Registry Program Manager), the Thoracic TCE has established project - based databases to track the demographics and response status of patients to immune - oncology treatments, as well as acquired resistance to standard therapies and novel targeted immunotherapies.

Patients will be able to receive the Hutch's novel immunotherapies for cancer at roughly double the capacity that existed before the 9,222 - square - foot clinic opened, and intensive monitoring will enable researchers to better understand why some patients respond, where others do not, and to achieve the goal of developing the best curative approach to treatment for each individual patient.

The research presentations cover a wide range of disciplines, treatment approaches and cancer types, including a unique form of immunotherapy for ovarian cancer, promising results on a new treatment approach for Hodgkin lymphoma in children and young adults and an effort to build a predictive tool to determine which patients are most likely to respond well to checkpoint inhibitors.

Your veterinarian will be able to give you specific instructions on how to best treat the symptoms until you are able to eliminate the particular allergen from the environment or until immunotherapy treatments begin working.

For severe cases of atopic dermatitis that don't respond well to treatment, allergy injections, (called hyposensitization or allergen - specific immunotherapy) are another — albeit more expensive — option.

They offer testing for insect and drug allergies as well as immunotherapy as a form of treatment for patients with seasonal allergies.