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Another Big Week for Cancer Immunotherapy

May 22, 2013

Brian Brewer

The past week saw an explosion of media coverage on the power of cancer immunotherapy. NBC Nightly News, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and other major media outlets covered the remarkable results from a groundbreaking immunotherapy clinical trial.

antibody, cancer immunotherapy, melanoma, news, vaccine

Cancer Immunotherapy on the Rise
May 13, 2013 | Brian Brewer
Breakthrough new immune-based cancer treatments are offering patients a real chance at keeping cancer at bay for the long term, experts report in this article from Bloomberg News.

antibody, anti-CTLA-4, anti-PD-1, immunotherapy, Jedd Wolchok, melanoma, metastases, yervoy
Science Corner: Our Growing CD Collection
May 6, 2013 | Alexandra Mulvey
Today, many up-and-coming CD antigens are joining the classics as promising targets for immune-based drug development as part of a new class of treatment that directly targets immune cell co-stimulatory pathways to boost the immune response against cancer. And many “remixes” have brought the classics in vogue once again.

breast cancer, CD antigens, clinical accelerator, kidney cancer, leukemia, lloyd old, lung cancer, lymphoma, melanoma, ovarian cancer
Our Winter 2013 Newsletter is Now Available Online
March 1, 2013 | Brian Brewer
The Winter 2013 issue of The Researcher, CRI's print newsletter, is now available online.

Dream Team, Mary Elizabeth Williams, MedImmune, melanoma, SU2C
Response to Robert Langreth's CANCER MIRACLES
February 16, 2009 | Jill O'Donnell-Tormey, Ph.D.
The Forbes article reports how cancer immunotherapy is producing stories of seemlingly miraculous recovery in cancer patients. CRI has been there all along the way, ushering in the future of immune-based cancer treatments.

cancer miracles, immunotherapy, melanoma, skin cancer

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