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Matti Narkia

CANCER VACCINES AND IMMUNOTHERAPY - lefeurope.com - 0 views

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    Cancer immunotherapies, including cancer vaccines, are novel investigational cancer therapies. In contrast to chemotherapy and radiotherapy regimens that are often associated with severe side effects, cancer immunotherapy stimulates the body's immune system and natural resistance to cancer, thus offering a gentler means of cancer treatment that is less damaging to the rest of the body. Surgery is generally (but not always) performed, prior to immunotherapy, to remove most of the tumor (Hanna MG, Jr. et al 2001; Jocham D et al 2004). Vaccination or immunotherapy prompts the immune system to kill residual cancer cells that persist after surgery and could result in the cancer recurring.
Matti Narkia

Common diabetes drug may 'revolutionize' cancer therapies - 1 views

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    Researchers at McGill University and the University of Pennsylvania have discovered that a widely used anti-diabetic drug can boost the immune system and increase the potency of vaccines and cancer treatments. Their findings will be published June 3 in the journal Nature. The discovery was made by Dr. Russell Jones, an assistant professor at McGill's Goodman Cancer Centre and the Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Yongwon Choi, PhD, professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, and postdoctoral fellow Erika Pearce, PhD, of the University of Pennsylvania. They discovered that the widely prescribed diabetes treatment metformin increases the efficiency of the immune system's T-cells, which in turn makes cancer and virus-fighting vaccines more effective.
Matti Narkia

DEVELOPMENT OF HPV VACCINES FOR HPV-ASSOCIATED HEAD AND NECK SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA --... - 0 views

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    Development of HPV vaccines for HPV-associated head and neck squamous cell carcinoma. Devaraj K, Gillison ML, Wu TC. Crit Rev Oral Biol Med. 2003;14(5):345-62. Review. PMID: 14530303
Tom Scott

Will Americans Get Access to the First Lung Cancer Vaccine? - 0 views

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    Thanks to the U.S. embargo on Cuba, American lung cancer patients have been unable to access a lung cancer vaccine that has been increasing patients' survival rates on the island since 2008.
Vortege Ville

Vaccine to treat breast, ovarian cancers shows promise - 0 views

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    Patients with less advanced disease might benefit even more, small study suggests.
Matti Narkia

Cancer immunology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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    Cancer immunology is the study of interactions between the immune system and cancer cells (also called tumors or malignancies). It is also a growing field of research that aims to discover innovative cancer immunotherapies to treat and retard progression of this disease. The immune response, including the recognition of cancer-specific antigens is of particular interest in this field as knowledge gained drives the development of new vaccines and antibody therapies. For instance in 2007, Ohtani published a paper finding tumour infiltrating lymphocytes to be quite significant in human colorectal cancer.[1] The host was given a better chance at survival if the cancer tissue showed infiltration of inflammatory cells, in particular lymphocytic reactions. The results yielded suggest some extent of anti-tumour immunity is present in colorectal cancers in humans.
Matti Narkia

IMMUNE SYSTEM STRENGTHENING - lefeurope.com - 0 views

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    Age, stress, and poor nutrition can sap our immune system of its effectiveness. Influenza provides one example. During young adulthood, when the body can mount a robust immune response to this common virus, influenza is rarely fatal. Among the elderly, however, the virus is associated with significant rates of death and hospitalization (Nichol KL 2005). The impact of aging on the immune system is profound. As people age, a number of critical immune system components are reduced or slowed, including cellular response, response to vaccines, and antibody production. At the same time, susceptibilities to infection and cancer are increased. Some of this increased susceptibility to disease is linked to chronic inflammation, which is associated with many disorders of aging (Ershler WB et al 2000; Hamerman D 1999; Taaffe DR et al 2000).
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Diet for Breast Cancer Patients | cancerlab.org - 0 views

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    Most breast cancer patients will receive surgery and then need to complete 4-6 cycles of postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy.
Matti Narkia

Multiple roles for CD4+ T cells in anti-tumor immune responses. - Wiley InterScience ::... - 0 views

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    Multiple roles for CD4+ T cells in anti-tumor immune responses. Kennedy R, Celis E. Immunol Rev. 2008 Apr;222:129-44. Review. PMID: 18363998 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-065X.2008.00616.x
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