The immune system is an incredible evolutionary machine, designed to protect us from the ravages of bacteria, viruses, and other harmful microbes. But admittedly, there are some times when the immune system doesn’t work the way it is supposed to, giving rise to auto-immune disorders. And now scientists have demonstrated how a hijack of the immune system from melanoma cells… Read more »
When I wrote my previous blog post about checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapy, I didn’t realize that Phase 2 of the clinical trials were being released later on that day. Researchers at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (here in the Lone Star State) performed clinical trial checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapy in 94 patients with melanoma that had spread to the… Read more »
As I have mentioned a few times in this blog, melanoma has a disconcerting tendency to spread to the lungs, liver, and brain when it enters into the metastasizing stages. And brain tumors like that are pretty darn hard to treat. Most of the current treatments don’t really provide much benefit to patients. And once melanoma metastasizes, only about half… Read more »