However, it could dramatically improve the efficacy of
current immunotherapy drugs, which now have a 20 to 50 percent success rate.
The institute, which includes over 40 laboratories and more than 300 researchers, said the research would focus on modifying a patient's own immune system T - cells to target a tumor, studying ways to boost patient response to
current immunotherapy drugs.
Not exact matches
Roche has four biologic cancer
immunotherapy molecules in clinical trials that could work in powerful combinations with each other or with
current drugs, says William Pao, global head of oncology discovery in Basel.
It would likely explore whether the investigational
drug might boost the success of
current immunotherapies.
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Current medicinal therapeutic options include avoidance,
drugs and
immunotherapy, but recent investigations suggest that to eliminate allergies an infrared sauna may be used to modify the body's ANS.