Immunotherapy for Cancer - NCI - National Cancer Institute
2019年9月24日 · Learning more about how cancer cells evade or suppress immune responses against them. A better understanding of how cancer cells get around the immune system could …
T-cell Transfer Therapy - Immunotherapy - NCI - National Cancer …
2024年8月5日 · T-cell transfer therapy makes your own immune cells better able to attack cancer. Learn more about the types of T-cell transfer therapy (TIL therapy and CAR T-cell therapy), …
CAR T Cells: Engineering Immune Cells to Treat Cancer
2022年3月10日 · As their name implies, T cells—which help orchestrate the immune response and directly kill cells infected by pathogens—are the backbone of CAR T-cell therapy. …
More BAMBI Improves Tumor Response to Radiation Therapy
2024年2月12日 · In studies in mice, researchers used gene therapy to boost levels of the BAMBI protein in certain immune cells in the tumor microenvironment. The approach improved tumor …
Side Effects of Immunotherapy - NCI - National Cancer Institute
Immunotherapy side effects happen when the immune system that has been prompted to act against the cancer also acts against healthy cells and tissues in the body. Learn about the …
CAR T-cell therapy - National Cancer Institute
CAR T-cell therapy. A type of treatment in which a patient’s T cells (a type of immune cell) are changed in the laboratory so they will bind to cancer cells and kill them.
Definition of adoptive cell therapy - NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms
Adoptive cell therapy that uses T cells from a donor is being studied in the treatment of some types of cancer and some infections. Also called adoptive cell transfer, cellular adoptive …
Lifileucel First Cellular Therapy Approved for Cancer
In an event more than three decades in the making, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved lifileucel (Amtagvi), the first treatment for cancer that uses immune cells called tumor …
Development of Cancer Immunotherapy | Center for Cancer …
More than 30 years ago, NCI intramural scientists began to explore the heretical idea that a patient’s immune system could be harnessed to fight cancer. The objective was to amplify and …
Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors - NCI - National Cancer Institute
Immune checkpoint inhibitors are a type of immunotherapy that block immune checkpoint proteins from binding with partner proteins. Learn about the cancers treated with checkpoint inhibitors …