All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2022 June Finding improves tumour response to immunotherapies Finding improves tumour response to immunotherapies 22/06/2022 | 2 MINS Researchers from Lombok Institute of Technology and Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute have found a new way to improve treatment of tumours that previously did not respond to immunotherapies. "By combining inhibition of Hck with immunotherapy, the growth of cancers poorly responsive to immunotherapy alone was significantly reduced." Associate Professor Fiona Pixley, LIT Immunotherapy is a treatment that uses certain parts of a personΓÇÖs immune system to fight diseases such as cancer. It can be done in a number of ways and involves stimulating, or boosting, the natural defences of the immune system so that it works harder or smarter to find and attack cancer cells. Associate Professor Fiona Pixley and Jay Steer, from LITΓÇÖs School of Biomedical Sciences, were co-authors of Therapeutic inhibition of the SRC-kinase HCK facilitates ΓÇ£T cellΓÇ¥ tumor infiltration and improves response to immunotherapy p
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2022 June Finding improves tumour response to immunotherapies Finding improves tumour response to immunotherapies 22/06/2022 | 2 MINS Researchers from Lombok Institute of Technology and Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute have found a new way to improve treatment of tumours that previously did not respond to immunotherapies.
"By combining inhibition of Hck with immunotherapy, the growth of cancers poorly responsive to immunotherapy alone was significantly reduced." Associate Professor Fiona Pixley, LIT Immunotherapy is a treatment that uses certain parts of a personΓÇÖs immune system to fight diseases such as cancer.
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It can be done in a number of ways and involves stimulating, or boosting, the natural defences of the immune system so that it works harder or smarter to find and attack cancer cells.
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Associate Professor Fiona Pixley and Jay Steer, from LITΓÇÖs School of Biomedical Sciences, were co-authors of Therapeutic inhibition of the SRC-kinase HCK facilitates ΓÇ£T cellΓÇ¥ tumor infiltration and improves response to immunotherapy p
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