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Fecal transplants, made up of poop and microbes, are being touted as a promising new treatment for skin cancer patients
A new study suggests that transplanting fecal matter into the guts of melanoma patients could help …
Joshua Zitser
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Pharma giant Bristol-Myers Squibb just made another big bet on cancer immunotherapy
Bristol-Myers has two drugs, Opdivo and Yervoy, that are a part of a new class of cancer treatments…
Lydia Ramsey
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How Curex's at-home allergy testing and immunotherapy treatment could help you manage lifelong allergies
If you live with mild to moderate allergies, you may be able to treat them with immunotherapy &mdas…
Rebecca Strong
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Healthy gut microbiome helps to improve cancer treatment: Study
The microbiome, the set of microorganisms that live in the intestines, can be altered throug…
ANI
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Fecal transplants could be a secret weapon for some patients battling skin cancer
Fecal transplant pills taken before starting immunotherapy for melanoma helped patients improve the…
Julia Pugachevsky
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Gut bacteria may affect how cancer patients respond to immunotherapy, study finds
Researchers found certain gut bacteria signatures were associated with better and worse responses t…
Andrea Michelson
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UBS: The next big investment theme could be a cancer treatment
Biotech giant Amgen gained FDA approval for its immunotherapy drug targeting leukemia, Blincyto, in…
Lucinda Shen
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A 14-year old was diagnosed with skin cancer. A year later, he helped his grandma when she got the same diagnosis.
Sam Gee, 17, and his grandmother, Suzan Taff, 83, both received a melanoma diagnosis within one yea…
Julia Pugachevsky
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2 massive drugmakers are locked in a battle over the market for cancer immunotherapy - Goldman analysts say one is pulling ahead
Last Thursday, Merck announced positive phase 3 results for its treatment of advanced or metastatic…
Charlotte Hu
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Here's why Napster billionaire Sean Parker just invested $250 million in a new kind of cancer treatment
For example, Vice President Joe Biden and the Obama administration have asked for a $1 billion init…
Lydia Ramsey
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Why Bristol-Myers Squibb is making a big bet its approach to treating lung cancer is the right one
The data looked at how combinations of two rival immunotherapy drugs - made by Merck and Bristol-My…
Lydia Ramsey
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Pfizer executives are changing their tune on an approach for a promising new way to treat cancer, and it could be where the field is headed
For example, cancer drugmaker Incyte said in April that a key trial combining its cancer immunother…
Lydia Ramsey
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We might one day fight certain types of cancer with a futuristic patch like this one
In the case of diabetes, the HA forms teensy pockets that hold the insulin and a special protein th…
Lydia Ramsey
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'We are going to have lung cancer patients living longer and better:' A new kind of cancer treatment is about to change how we treat the disease
Progression-free survival - a clinical endpoint that basically means the cancer hasn't grown - was …
Lydia Ramsey
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When you should consider allergy shots and what to expect during immunotherapy
Allergy shots, or immunotherapy, can be effective at relieving allergy symptoms over many years. He…
Erin Heger,Jason R. McKnight
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How the researchers who won the Nobel Prize in medicine transformed the way we treat cancer
Even so, the Cancer Research Institute stuck with it, and eventually in 2011, the first immunothera…
Lydia Ramsey
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Are allergy shots worth it? They can provide long-term allergy relief — here's whether it's right for you
Allergy shots, or immunotherapy, can be effective at relieving allergy symptoms over many years. He…
Erin Heger
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A small drug company that's trying to make cancer treatments safer just received a huge endorsement
But just like chemotherapy and radiation, immunotherapy can have side effects. Those checkpoint inh…
Lydia Ramsey
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Carl Icahn just jumped into a $90 billion drug maker, and people are betting it'll be a takeover target
Beyond cancer immunotherapy, BMS also makes the bloodthinner Eliquis in collaboration with dru…
Lydia Ramsey
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A promising new set of cancer drugs has one big catch
In response to Jablow's piece, a spokeswoman from Bristol-Myers Squibb, the makers of Opdivo, provi…