People often get immunotherapy as a treatment for cancer. These immunotherapy treatments can be effective, but they may cause your immune system to have an unnatural response. Your body, as a result ...

Cytokines are key to immune regulation. Their extensive impact on human biology and disease has led to their long-term therapeutic use in treating cancer and a range of other diseases. Interleukin-2 ...

Ovarian cancer treatment faces challenges with high relapse and drug resistance rates, despite initial chemotherapy effectiveness. Cytokines like IL-6 and IL-11 are associated with complex tumor ...

Researchers at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University have developed a new approach to harnessing immunostimulatory cytokine proteins as a potential immunotherapy. Unlike previous methods ...

Immunotherapy using chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) expressing NK cells engineered via viral vectors has shown exceptional efficacy against hematologic cancers in clinical trials. This method, however ...

Clinicians are moving toward managing mild (Grade 1) cytokine release syndrome on an outpatient basis. The most common and often the most serious side effect of chimeric antigen replacement T cell ...

Cancer treatment has long faced a challenging trade-off: therapies strong enough to eliminate tumors often cause severe side effects. One promising solution involves cytokines, natural proteins that ...

STEM-engineered CAR T cells performed as well as or better against cancer cells than did FDA-approved CAR T cells and kept their cancer-fighting abilities for longer.

Cancer patients often lose excessive amounts of weight. This affects up to 80% of patients and is mainly due to a decrease in ...