Sentences with phrase «immune checkpoint blockade antibodies»
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The blockade of immune checkpoints with antibodies (Ab) anti-CTLA-4, anti-PD1 and anti-PD-L1, has given impressive clinical results and manageable safety profiles.
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In addition to checkpoint blockade antibodies, the editors also pointed to recent advances in adoptive cell therapy — removing a patient's immune cells, engineering them in the lab, and then re-infusing them back into the patient to fight cancer.
Allison is the person responsible for developing the checkpoint blockade approach to cancer immunotherapy: antibodies are used to target specific molecules on immune cells, which empowers them to find and attack cancer cells.
Along with checkpoint blockade antibodies, vaccines, and other immunotherapies, BiTEs are helping to turn our immune system into a powerful defense against this disease.