Amid all the coronavirus gloom and doom, it is a pleasure for us at Stopcancer.health to report some positive news on research unto cancer detection and prevention. A new AI test that can early detect more than 50 types of cancer shows promise in a clinical study led by the Dana-Faber Cancer Institute and the…
Transgene, a biotechnology company based in France, has successfully given a new immunotherapeutic drug to a first person in a Phase 1/2a clinical trial at St. James Hospital, Leeds. The trial tests the drug TG6002 on colorectal cancer patients with inoperable liver metastasis. At the Leeds trial, the new drug was delivered directly into the…
Chemotherapy has been used extensively in the treatment of cancer for the past seventy years. It involves the use of toxic chemicals that kill rapidly dividing cells that build into a cancerous tumour. Unfortunately, classic chemotherapy not only destroys cancer cells but also healthy cells and can weaken or even destroy the patient’s immune system.…
Illustration: Massachusetts General Hospital As we noted in our CAR T Cell Therapy blog, ( 6 November, 2019), there has been a surge in the understanding of how to activate the body’s immune system to combat cancer. The development and use of modified cells, known as chimeric antigen receptor CAR T Cells which have the…