Sentences with phrase «effective against melanomas»

Surgery is effective against melanomas that are detected early, but the cancer spreads rapidly and once this has happened, most treatments fail.

As demonstrated by the breadth of clinical trial involvement shown above, CCIR members are testing the utility of immune checkpoint blockade in lymphoma (shown by Dr. Allison to be effective against melanoma), genetic engineering in cell therapy (e.g., CD19, CXCR2, TGF - β DNR), and TLR agonists or IL - 2 in vaccine formulations as well as some novel combination therapies, such as the infusion of tumor - reactive lymphocytes from HLA - matched donors who were vaccinated with a lymphoma idiotype.

«The type of beta blocker we found to be effective against melanoma — pan beta blockers — was actually the least prescribed,» Schell said.

Not exact matches

«However, our results clearly show that natural killer cells can also carry out a long - lasting and effective immune reaction against the body's own pigmented cells, including malignant melanoma cells,» says Prof. Dr. Gunther Hartmann, Director of the Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Clinical Pharmacology of the University of Bonn.

A team of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators has discovered a new combination of drugs that may be effective against one of the deadliest cancers, malignant melanoma.

According to the team, it's likely to prove particularly effective against cancers that spread through the lymphatic system, such as metastatic melanoma.