cancer therapy

Aug 13, 2024

For most of the last century, breast cancer was categorized only by its location in the body; as a result, treatment results varied significantly. Patients with metastatic HER2+ breast cancer were traditionally treated with conventional chemotherapy regimens until trastuzumab became available. In September 1998, th...

May 16, 2024

Siemens Healthineers Invested USD 314 Million in New MRI Manufacturing Plant On May 15, 2024, Siemens Healthineers announced that it had invested USD 314 million in a new MRI manufacturing plant in the UK. The facility in Oxford, England, which Siemens anticipates opening in 2026, will develop technology to redu...

Jan 01, 2024

T-cell receptor (TCR)-dependent treatment involves modified immune cells aimed at attacking particular tumor indicators. This treatment approach necessitates a systematic procedure including patient evaluation (e.g., for HLA-A*02:01 and precise tumor markers), collecting immune cells, creating the altered TCR produ...

Mar 13, 2023

Cancer is the second leading cause of death worldwide, after ischemic heart disease. There are approximately 200 different types of cancer, with lung, prostate, colorectal, stomach, and liver cancer being the most common in men and breast, colorectal, lung, cervical, and thyroid cancer being the most common in wome...

Dec 16, 2022

Blood cancers have seen tremendous advancements in the past few years owing to the dedication of the researchers who are putting their endless efforts just to bring innovation into the lives of suffering patients. These experimentations and their upshots are always brought to us through various platforms, the Ameri...

Dec 02, 2022

The development of tumor therapy in cancer immunotherapy has been aided by programmed death receptor-1 and programmed death protein ligand inhibitors. Since its discovery in 1990, the programmed cell death protein 1 receptor (PD-1) receptor has been known to negatively regulate T-cell mediated immune response via i...

Nov 30, 2022

Antibody-drug conjugate (ADCs) is a new emerging class of highly potent pharmaceutical drugs, which is a great combination of chemotherapy and immunotherapy. Over the past couple of decades, antibody-drug conjugates have revolutionized the field of cancer chemotherapy. ADCs are composed of 3 parts: an antibody drug...

Oct 27, 2022

DePuy Synthes Received FDA Approval for TELIGEN™ System  On October 20, 2022, DePuy Synthes, The Orthopaedics Company of Johnson & Johnson, provides one of the most comprehensive orthopedics portfolios in the world that helps heal and restore movement for the millions of patients, announced that ...

Oct 17, 2022

Oncolytic viruses are cancer treatments that employ a natural or reprogrammed virus capable of targeting and killing malignant cells. They are a new class of cancer agents that induce tumor regression by causing immunogenic cell death, inducing preferential replication in tumor cells, and stimulating host antitumor...

Jun 30, 2022

LumiThera Announced the Result of US LIGHTSITE III Trial of Non-neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) Subjects Treated with Photobiomodulation (PBM) using the Valeda® Light Delivery System On June 22, 2022, LumiThera Inc., a commercial-stage medical device company offering photobiomodulation (PBM) t...