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…
Our hair, its colour and style is a crucial part of our personal identity. Sudden hair loss is an acutely stressful part of chemotherapy. This hair loss is caused by taxanes, the anti-cancer drugs used in treatment. Such loss can have a psychologically depressing effect on all patients during therapy, particularly child and adult female…
As I discussed in recent blogs, there is a surge of new immune-oncology technologies that help the body’s immune system identify and attack cancer tumours. The precision of such technologies will be crucial to refining and personalising cancer treatment for the 21st century.
Our knowledge of cancer has greatly improved in the last two decades. This has revealed the huge variability that can be found between not only different types of cancer, but also between patients with the same type of cancer. It is now evident that there is no single ‘cure’ for cancer and it has become…