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New type of immunotherapy shows promise for advanced skin cancer – News-Medical.Net
A new type of immunotherapy for the skin cancer malignant melanoma shows promising results. Three severely ill patients are now long-term survivors.
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Aug 7 2020
A new type of immunotherapy for the skin cancer malignant melanoma shows promising results. Three severely ill patients are now long-term survivors. The study, published in OncoImmunology, is the result of a collaboration between researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital in Sweden.
Immunotherapy is based on activation of the body’s own immune defence to eliminate cancer cells. Immunotherapy achieved substantial progress…
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