Sentences with phrase «multiple cancer antigens»

Patients may also be less likely to develop resistance to immunotherapy because of the immune system's ability to target multiple cancer antigens simultaneously, and adapt to changing cancer cells.

The Cancer Vaccine Collaborative is working on treatments that target multiple cancer antigens, which should trigger a more aggressive immune response and increase the odds of defeating tumors.

Not exact matches

After being infused back into patients» bodies, these newly built cells both multiply and seek out a peptide expressed by the antigens NY - ESO - 1 and LAGE - 1 found in multiple myeloma cancer cells.

Richard Vague, the event's honorary chair, took the podium to acknowledge the vast achievements of the ACC, as did Lori Alf, a multiple myeloma patient of Edward Stadtmauer, MD, chief of Hematologic Malignancies, whose cancer is in remission after receiving chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) therapy.

«We have created a potentially much less expensive approach to making a therapeutic cancer vaccine that, while targeting a single tumor antigen, generates an immune response against multiple antigens.

In addition, because ZVex product candidates have the potential to carry the genetic material of different tumor antigens, as well as immunostimulatory molecules, we can design them to target multiple types of cancers.

The new results — from trials for patients with advanced lymphoma, multiple myeloma, and pancreatic cancer — expand on Penn's work with chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) therapies, building on findings in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia and acute lymphoblastic leukemia dating back to the start of the first clinical trial in 2010.