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Faecal transplants show potential to improve melanoma treatment: Study
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
A multi-centre study from Lawson Health Research Institute, the Centre Hospitalier de l'Universite de Montreal (CHUM), and the Jewish General Hospital (JGH) found that faecal microbiota transplants (FMT) from healthy donors are safe and show promise in improving response to immunotherapy in
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Researchers reveal why cancer patients do not react to immunotherapy
Updated : 3 years ago IST
Cancer treatment has transformed thanks to immunotherapy. The five-year survival rate for advanced melanoma, the deadliest type of skin cancer, has climbed from less than 10% to more than 50% since the development of immunotherapy in 2011. Sadly, immunotherapy only works on about half of mel
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Cancer patients who do not react to immunotherapy lack crucial immune cell
Updated : 3 years ago IST
Immunotherapy has changed cancer treatment. Since the introduction of immunotherapy in 2011, the five-year survival rate in advanced melanoma, the most lethal form of skin cancer, has increased from less than 10% to more than 50%. Unfortunately, only approximately half of melanoma patients r
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Mediterranean diet improves immunotherapy response rates, progression-free
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Vienna [Austria], October 10 (ANI): A Mediterranean diet high in fibre, monounsaturated fatty acids, and polyphenols has been linked to improved immunotherapy response rates and progression-free survival in patients with advanced melanoma, according to a new study.
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Study focuses on possible new combination treatment for advanced melanoma
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 31 (ANI): Researchers discovered that using an immunotherapy drug called NKTR-214, also known as bempegaldesleukin, in combination with an infusion of anti-tumour immune cells, or T cells, may produce a stronger immune response that could help fight advanced melano
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Immunotherapy drugs when combined prevent melanoma progression
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Sept 29 (ANI): In a new trial, researchers have discovered that a combination of two immunotherapy drugs -- ipilimumab and nivolumab - is capable of reversing or preventing the progression of advanced melanoma for five years or more in one in every two patients.
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