Promising success of early-stage immunotherapy
DECRYPTION – Six months after treatment, the cancer was undetectable by MRI, tomography, endoscopy and biopsy for the 14 patients with a special form of ...
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Cancer: “Our immune system has capacities that no drug can ever match”
MAINTENANCE – Pr Olivier Michielin, oncologist in Lausanne, takes stock of the extraordinary benefits of immunotherapy on the occasion of the publication of a book ...
A ‘new era’ in the treatment of operable lung cancer
DECRYPTION – Combining immunotherapy and chemotherapy before surgery reduces the risk of death by 40%. These results “should change practices”, enthuses in the New England ...
Immunotherapy: luring antibodies to attack new targets
DECRYPTION – Researchers have ‘disguised’ cells to make them vulnerable to widespread antibodies. “Sometimes we have a coffee, we chat, and the ideas come like ...
Boosting immunity to cure cancers
DECRYPTION – A revolution is underway: immunotherapy does not seek to destroy the tumor but helps the immune system to fight it. Surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy… ...
Immunotherapy: the revolution is underway in the face of cancer
DECRYPTION – This is a paradigm shift: this treatment does not seek to destroy the tumor, but helps the body to fight it. Chemotherapy is ...
Jean-Charles Soria: “Early diagnosis can save the sick”
INTERVIEW – The CEO of Gustave-Roussy explains how the pandemic has changed the care of cancer patients. Oncologist and professor of medicine at Paris-Saclay University, ...
Differences between chemotherapy mabs
What is the difference between the various types of immunotherapy? Today we all look to these new high hopes but, at least from what I ...