Drug boost effectiveness of cancer vaccine

<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWYKouyvcWhQMZ3yKT3hnGsv9HfVSEnexmE1pAPgfu264kvRwV7T_Nu4OgxOfZL6Bx0Y9Dr4ISMIEgrK-2CWVcuvtuuynU6jz5YF9mjEpigNA4LcYz92VMkI5TVfqsOvX2u3Q8nWgvdtc/s1600/Zenapax+cancer+ending.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="154" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWYKouyvcWhQMZ3yKT3hnGsv9HfVSEnexmE1pAPgfu264kvRwV7T_Nu4OgxOfZL6Bx0Y9Dr4ISMIEgrK-2CWVcuvtuuynU6jz5YF9mjEpigNA4LcYz92VMkI5TVfqsOvX2u3Q8nWgvdtc/s200/Zenapax+cancer+ending.jpg" width="200" /></a></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> Dr. Robert H. Vonderheide, MD, PhD (Damon Runyon-Lilly Clinical Investigator ) and colleagues at University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, reported that the drug daclizumab (Zenapax) improved the survival of breast cancer patients taking a cancer vaccine by 30 percent (seven months).</div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> <span lang="es">Compared to those patients not taking the drug.  <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> <span lang="es">Daclizumab, approved for use in preventing transplant rejection, targets Tregs (regulatory T cells) that normally prevent the immune system from detecting and attacking tumors.  <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> <span lang="es">The researchers tested the drug in ten patients with metastatic breast cancer prior to giving them an experimental breast cancer vaccine.  <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> <span lang="es">The tumors stopped growing in six of these patients.  <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> <span lang="es">This drug, in combination with other immunotherapy, may be useful for treatment of other cancer types as well.  <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> <span lang="es">These promising results were published in the journal Science Translational Medicine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>

Drug boost effectiveness of cancer vaccine

Dr. Robert H. Vonderheide, MD, PhD (Damon Runyon-Lilly Clinical Investigator ) and colleagues at University of Pennsylvania School of Me...

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