Category: Cancer
Can peripheral blood sampling be combined with radiation therapy for cancer? Elizabeth Tracey reports
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Cancers continue to change, or mutate, as time goes on, often acquiring the ability to outmaneuver treatments. Valsamo Anagnostou, a cancer researcher at Johns Hopkins, has used repeated blood sampling for cancer cells with treatment strategies like radiation to stay …
A combination of strategies help determine best cancer treatment strategies, Elizabeth Tracey reports
How does radiation benefit the body’s response to cancer? Elizabeth Tracey reports
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Radiation of a primary tumor can activate immune cells around distant metastases, a study by Valsamo Anagnostou, a cancer researcher at Johns Hopkins, and colleagues has shown. Anagnostou says the mechanism is clear. Anangostou: Radiation induces cell death. The cells …
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Radiation is emerging as an important tool in helping improve immune response in cancer, Elizabeth Tracey reports
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When cancer develops resistance to immunotherapy, radiation may help. That’s according to a study by cancer researcher Valsamo Anagnostou at Johns Hopkins. Anagnostou: We’re administering radiation as a sensitizer for immunotherapy and as the way to circumvent primary resistance to …
Can radiation affect distant metastasis? Elizabeth Tracey reports
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If someone with cancer has initially responded to immunotherapy but then develops metastasis, radiation of the primary tumor may help treat those distant sites, research by Valsamo Anagnostou, a cancer researcher at Johns Hopkins, has shown. Anagnostou: Radiation can activate …
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Can radiation improve the success of immunotherapies to treat cancer? Elizabeth Tracey reports
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Immunotherapies have proven very successful in the treatment of different types of cancer, but over time it is common for resistance to develop. Valsamo Anagnostou, a cancer researcher at Johns Hopkins, has found that radiation may help activate someone’s own …