How to handle side effects of CAR-T cell therapy
Immune-cell based therapies opening a new frontier for cancer treatment carry unique, potentially lethal side effects that provide a new challenge for oncologists, one addressed by a team led by clinicians at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center with proposed guidelines for systematically dealing with the toxicities of these drugs.
Their work, published recently in Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology, confronts...
Building on progress against pancreatic cancer
Nationally, only about 9% of people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer survive five years. In most cases, the disease has spread to other organs...
Immunotherapy is unleashed on blood cancers
Tomas Sandoval was about to become a father for the second time in June 2014, when he was devastated to learn he had non-Hodgkin lymphoma...
In the news: Hero doctors braved Harvey to reach patients
Hurricane Harvey brought with it unprecedented rainfall – 27 trillion gallons – and staggering destruction – 33 Texas counties declared federal disaster areas and an estimated $75 billion in losses – over a six-day stretch. But these eye-popping and heartrending statistics were met with heartwarming and heroic acts of generosity and caring from so many Houston-area residents, including doctors at MD Anderson Cancer Center.
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