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August 14th 2023
Certain patients with penile squamous cell carcinoma responded to therapy with an immune checkpoint inhibitor, according to recent research.
Immunotherapy 101: What Patients Can Expect from CAR-T Cell Therapy
December 3rd 2020Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell therapy is becoming more widely available, with two drugs approved to treat specific blood cancers and more being investigated in clinical trials across cancer types. Here’s what patients need to know if they’re considering treatment with one of these novel immunotherapies.
Mortality From COVID-19 Increases in Patients Receiving Systemic Cancer Treatments
October 14th 2020In an interview with CURE®, Dr. Trisha Wise-Draper discusses new findings that show an increased mortality risk for patients with cancer receiving systemic treatments who subsequently contracted COVID-19.
Immunotherapy Use Not Associated with Increased Risk of Death in Patients with Cancer and COVID-19
July 22nd 2020More than half of the patients (61%) admitted to either the hospital or ICU were discharged and 12% remained in the hospital. Nine patients had died by the time data collection was cut off for this study.