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Salk scientists find recent immunotherapy treatment for glioblastoma

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Salk scientists find recent immunotherapy treatment for glioblastoma
12
Aug

Glioblastoma, essentially the most common and deadly type of brain cancer, grows rapidly to invade and destroy healthy brain tissue. The tumor sends out cancerous tendrils into the brain that make surgical tumor removal extremely difficult or inconceivable. Now, Salk scientists have found the immunotherapy treatment anti-CTLA-4 results in considerably greater survival of mice with […]

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Targeting the “don’t eat me” signal may improve immunotherapy for glioblastoma

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Targeting the “don’t eat me” signal may improve immunotherapy for glioblastoma
19
Jul

“Don’t eat me!” That is how one might translate the signal that the cancer cells in a glioblastoma send to the macrophages (white blood cells specialized in removing dead and dying cellular matter) within the brain. Immunotherapy attempts to enable these cells to eradicate the abnormal cells, but to date, it has met with little […]

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