Pioneering endogenous T-cell therapy for cancer treatments
Immunotherapy, which stimulates the patient’s own immune system to attack cancer, has shown promise in treating a variety of cancer types with long-term responses. This class of therapy involves a range of treatments, including checkpoint blockade inhibitors, vaccines and cell-based therapies.
MD Anderson’s adoptive-cell therapy (ACT) platform, which supports the Moon Shots Program™ was established to develop promising new...
MD Anderson faculty members awarded at ASCO Annual Meeting
For their role in transforming cancer care, three MD Anderson faculty received the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s Special Awards...
Matching targeted therapies to gene mutations improves survival
Matching targeted therapies to tumor-specific gene mutations across tumor types improved survival in patients with advanced cancer, compared...
Drug may benefit urinary tract cancer patients
In recent years, five new immunotherapy drugs have been approved to treat patients diagnosed with urinary cancer. But the drugs, which held promise for replacing standard chemotherapy treatment, shrank tumors in only 15 to 20 percent of patients.
An international Phase II trial led by MD Anderson researchers may provide an alternative. The trial showed that treatment with the oral FGFR inhibitor erdafitinib (ERDA) was well-tolerated...
Could a pill replace chemotherapy for some patients?
In a small Phase II study of early-stage breast cancer patients with BRCA 1 and 2 mutations, researchers found that more than half of women...
Researcher found a way to analyze the DNA of individual cancer cells
Understanding evolution within cancer cells is a longtime interest for Nicholas Navin, Ph.D., an associate professor of Genetics and Bioinformatics...
PARP inhibitor shows benefit for small cell lung cancer patients
In a randomized, Phase II trial led by researchers at MD Anderson, adding the PARP inhibitor veliparib to a standard chemotherapy agent improved...
8 researchers join ranks of Sabin Family Fellows
Eight MD Anderson researchers have been selected as the newest class of Andrew Sabin Family Fellows. As part of the Andrew Sabin Family Fellowship...