For patients with relapsed and refractory multiple myeloma, the CAR-T cell therapy Ide-cel resulted in a two-fold increase in the average length of time that patients' tumours did not progress compared to standard treatment, with 71% of patients experiencing substantial tumour regression and 39% experiencing complete tumour disappearance.
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Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy Reduces Colon Cancer Recurrence Rate By 28%, With Fewer Post-Operative Complications, Study Shows
Preoperative oxaliplatin-fluoropyrimidine chemotherapy given to colon cancer patients did not increase the risk of perioperative complications in colon cancer patients and did reduce postoperative recurrence rates, according to the results of the international phase 3/4 FOxTROT trial.
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Study Shows That a Blood Pressure Drug Combined With Radiotherapy Improves Outcomes In Locally Advanced Pancreatic Cancer
Pancreatic cancer is known to be a highly fatal and incurable type of cancer known as the "king of cancers". Currently, the only possible cure for pancreatic cancer is the complete surgical removal of the tumour tissue. Once the cancer has spread beyond the pancreatic organ, the patient's treatment options are very limited.
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Cutting-edge Medicine: Getting Immune Cells To Kill Immune Cells Can Actually Shrink Solid Tumours!
CAR-T therapy is a cellular immunotherapy treatment that has become very popular in recent years. This therapy uses genetic engineering techniques to upgrade the patient's immune T cells in vitro, before entering the body to exert a powerful anti-cancer effect. Currently, CAR-T therapy has performed very well in blood cancers such as lymphoma and leukaemia.
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Immunotherapy has been a very important treatment in recent years, with many patients in lung cancer, malignant melanoma and many other cancers experiencing dramatic improvements in prognosis with this cutting-edge therapy. In pancreatic cancer, however, progress in immunotherapy has been very slow and its effectiveness has been extremely limited.
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According to data from cohort 17 of the phase 1b COSMIC-021 trial (NCT03170960), the combination therapy of cabozantinib and atelizumab, at a mean follow-up of 25.9 months, 17% of the 30 patients in cohort 17 had significant tumour shrinkage or disappearance, giving an overall disease control rate of 60% when those with stable lesions were added. 5 patients with tumours in remission All of the patients whose tumours had shrunk by at least 30%.
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At present, test tube babies are divided into a generation of test tube babies according to popular parlance, namely conventional in vitro fertilization embryo transfer (IVF-ET); The second generation of test tube infants, namely intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI); The third generation of test tube infants, namely, pre implantation genetic testing (PGT).
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Can patients with bridge onychiasis and hypothyroidism have normal childbearing?
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UK Launches First Clinical Trial Of Proton Beam Therapy For Breast Cancer To Help Patients Reduce The Risk Of Heart Problems Caused By Radiotherapy
The clinical trial (PARABLE) will take place at 22 sites across the UK and is planned to recruit 192 patients at higher risk of developing heart problems. the PARABLE trial is led by researchers from the Royal Marsden Hospital, the University of Cambridge, and the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) UK, and is managed by the Clinical Trials and Statistics Unit, funded by Cancer Research UK, at the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR). was conducted.
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According to researchers at the Tisch Cancer Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, a new treatment that helps the immune system kill multiple myeloma cancer cells has benefited up to 73% of patients in 2 clinical trials!