Immunotherapy enhances your immune system’s ability to target cancer cells. Chemotherapy acts directly on cancer cells to keep them from replicating. Immunotherapy and chemotherapy are two ...

Immunotherapy is the treatment of disease by inducing, enhancing or suppressing an immune response. Activation immunotherapies induce or amplify an immune response and are used in vaccines and as ...

“Although allergic sensitization is more prominent in phenotypes with more severe disease, specific aeroallergen sensitization does not link to the newly identified clinical phenotypes.” Disclosure: ...

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy have developed a computer model to help scientists identify tumor-fighting immune ...

Immuno-oncology seeks to harness the body’s immune system to identify and destroy cancer cells. Although often considered a modern medical breakthrough, its roots trace back to the late 19th ...

A new study, led by researchers at Stanford, has now shown that a compound called EBC-46 can reactivate these dormant cells, allowing them to then be targeted by immunotherapy. This is called a ...

Medicare covers immunotherapy treatment for cancer. Out-of-pocket costs will vary, depending on the Medicare plan a person has and whether or not they have supplemental insurance. If a person has ...

Other drugs help the immune system to attack the cancer. They are called immunotherapies. This page is about targeted cancer drugs and immunotherapy for melanoma skin cancer that: can be removed with ...

The BMT and Immunotherapy fellowship is an intense, year-long program to prepare hematology-oncology physicians to become adept in blood and marrow transplantation (BMT) and immunotherapy (IMTX) ...

Immunotherapy is the use of medicines that help a person’s own immune system find and destroy cancer cells. It can be used to treat some people with liver cancer. An important part of the immune ...

Doctors use targeted cancer drugs or immunotherapy to treat melanoma that has spread elsewhere in the body such as the liver, lungs or bone (advanced cancer). Or to treat stage 3 melanoma that cannot ...