The high cost of cancer drugs makes it difficult for public and private health care systems to provide patients with up-to-date treatment. If this trend continues, it will be increasingly difficult forRead More…
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), cancer is the second leading cause of death in the world. In 2018 alone, 9.6 million people worldwide died of cancer, accounting for about 1/6Read More…
Most CAR-T cell therapies require targeting cancer cell-specific antigens. Now, there is a new way to target the environment around the tumor, which comes from nanobodies naturally produced by free alpacas, camelsRead More…
Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche recently announced that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted the biologics licensing application (BLA) of polatuzumab vedotin, antibody drug conjugate (ADC), and granted priority review. TheRead More…
French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi recently announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the nanobody drug Cablivi (caplacizumab), combined with plasma exchange and immunosuppressive therapy. For the treatment ofRead More…
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) evades the body’s immune defenses through multiple mutations, and antibodies produced by the host immune system against HIV follow complex and untraceable evolutionary pathways. This complexity makesRead More…
Immuno-Oncology Therapy (I-O) refers to a therapy that kills tumor cells by activating the body’s immune system. According to their different mechanisms of action, immunotherapeutic drugs can be divided into six categories.Read More…
In a recent study published in an international magazine of Immunity, scientists at the University of Southampton have developed a new antibody that could hold the key to unlocking cancers’ defense againstRead More…
The International Union Against Cancer believes that one-third of cancers are preventable, one-third can be cured if diagnosed early, and one-third can be alleviated to help prolong patients’ life. Cancer control isRead More…
Immunotherapy with checkpoint inhibitors is more effective in cancer patients who have elevated numbers of specific types of immune cells inside their tumors, a study suggests. Patients with a favorable combination of immuneRead More…