This study tested the effect of specifically blocking CXCR4 on standard anti-PD1 immunotherapy in liver cancer models. Most ...

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine link NBR1 protein levels in liver cancer to immunotherapy effectiveness. High NBR1 may indicate poor response to treatment, while lowering NBR1 shrinks tumors in ...

Immunotherapy treatment may make liver transplant viable for patients with later-stage hepatocellular carcinoma provided they adhere to a 3-month waiting period, according to study results.Liver ...

Immunotherapy is a modern approach to cancer treatment that uses a patient's own immune system to help fight tumors. It has made an incredible impact on treating cancers in many different organ ...

It may soon be possible to determine which patients with a type of liver cancer called hepatocellular carcinoma would benefit from immunotherapy, according to a preclinical study by Weill Cornell ...

Immunotherapy let some cancer patients with mismatch repair deficient tumors completely avoid surgery, chemo and radiation, a clinical trial finds. Cancer operations that remove whole or parts of ...

Of those patients, 49 had cancer of the rectum, while the rest had other cancers, including of the esophagus, urinary tract and liver. Of the 103 people studied, "80% of them didn't need any ...

In August 2015, former President Jimmy Carter thought he had mere weeks to live. His skin cancer ‒ metastatic melanoma ‒ had seeded malignant tumors in his liver and brain. Conventional ...

Excess fat linked to liver cancer immunotherapy resistance—healthier diets are beneficial. Your friend's email. Your email. I would like to subscribe to Science X Newsletter. Learn more.

Over time the body will absorb the dead cancer cells and leave a hole in the liver. The liver will then lay down healthy tissue in its place. Because the tumor cells are dead, they do not spread ...