These drugs work by targeting the PDL - 1 receptor — a known immunotherapy biomarker for lung and other cancers — to
boost immune responses to the cancer.
Not exact matches
Oats have also been shown
to boost immune responses, regulate blood sugar and lower risk for type 2 diabetes, breast
cancer and childhood asthma.
Dr. De Carvalho says: «Another important implication of our finding is that since decitabine induces an anti-viral
response, which is highly immunogenic, it may be useful
to combine this agent with
immune therapy
to further advance personalized
cancer medicine by
boosting an individual's natural defenses
to fight disease.
The Pexa - Vec virus was originally developed by Michael Mastrangelo, MD, and Edmund Lattime, PhD, of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, who engineered the harmless vaccinia virus
to infect only
cancer cells and other rapidly dividing cells, as well as
to stimulate
immune activity, in hopes of
boosting the
immune response to tumors.
As the
cancer field saw successes with immunotherapies that could
boost patients»
immune responses to cancer, Swanton turned
to studying how heterogeneity within a tumor influences its interaction with the
immune system.
Interferons are thought
to work by
boosting the body's
immune system
response to reduce either the growth of
cancer cells or help the body fight off virus infections.
Oats have also been shown
to boost immune responses, regulate blood sugar and lower risk for type 2 diabetes, breast
cancer and childhood asthma.