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Study reveals why Black men with prostate cancer have greater survival benefits from immunotherapy – News-Medical.Net
Black men die more often of prostate cancer yet, paradoxically, have greater survival benefits from immunotherapy treatment.
Black men die more often of prostate cancer yet, paradoxically, have greater survival benefits from immunotherapy treatment. A new Northwestern Medicine study discovered the reason appears to be an increase of a surprising type of immune cell in the tumor. The findings could lead to immune-based precision medicine treatment for men of all races with localized aggressive and advanced prostate cancer.
In the new study, Northwestern scientists showed tumors from Black men and men of African ancestry…
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