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Young women with breast cancer often state they’d like to have children at some point, yet after they’re treated their maintenance therapy may pose barriers. Now a study presented at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium shows that pausing therapy …
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Tumor infiltrating lymphocytes, known as TILS, allowed people with advanced melanoma, a serious type of skin cancer, to live longer than those who received an antibody alone, a recent study showed. Kimmel Cancer Center director William Nelson at Johns Hopkins …
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So-called ‘bispecific antibodies,’ are racking up some impressive results when it comes to treating certain cancers, recent studies show. William Nelson, director of the Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins says making individualized antibodies for cancer treatment as well as …
The blood cancer multiple myeloma largely responds to a specially constructed antibody known as a BITE, for bispecific T cell engager, a recent study shows. Kimmel Cancer Center director William Nelson at Johns Hopkins describes the data. Nelson: In this …
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Antibodies are usually part of our immune response to infections, but now are being constructed in the laboratory to fight cancer, with a recent study demonstrating just how effective they can be against a type of blood cancer. William Nelson, …
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Fentanyl laced prescription drug lookalikes are implicated in recent increases in drug overdose deaths among those 65+, federal data reveal. Eric Strain, a substance use disorders expert at Johns Hopkins, says a multitude of paths must be followed to curb …
