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Fight Aging! Newsletter, November 19th 2018
Fight Aging! provides a weekly digest of news and commentary for thousands of subscribers interested in the latest longevity science: progress towards the medical control of aging in order to prevent age-related frailty, suffering, and disease, as well as improvements in the present understanding of what works and what doesn't work when it comes to extending healthy life. Expect to see summaries of recent advances in medical research, news from the scientific community, advocacy and fundraising initiatives to help speed work on the repair and reversal of aging, links to online resources, and much more. This content is...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 18, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

Safety and Efficacy of Anti-PD-1 Monoclonal Antibodies in Patients With Relapsed or Refractory Lymphoma: A Meta-Analysis of Prospective Clinic Trails
Conclusions: Nivolumab and pembrolizumab have promising outcomes with tolerable AEs and drug-related deaths in patients with relapsed or refractory lymphoma. Pembrolizumab caused less any grade AEs like fatigue and rash than nivolumab. Patients with HL got better response than NHL. Introduction Programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) is an immune checkpoint receptor mainly expressed on activated T cells, natural killer cells, and B cells (Ishida et al., 1992). The PD-L1 and PD-L2 are its known ligands, which interact with PD-1 on T cells and prevent T-cell activation and proliferation. PD-L1 is expressed on macropha...
Source: Frontiers in Pharmacology - April 30, 2019 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: research

Navigating the Treatment Landscape
for Advanced-stage Kidney Cancer Mayer N. Fishman, MD, PhD For the patient with advanced-stage kidney cancer, deciding on a course of treatment presents diverse choices. The physician must weigh how quickly the cancer is spreading, the pattern of that spread, and relative risks from other medical conditions against the patient’s individual treatment goals and medical needs. In many cases of patients with advanced disease, there are therapies that can realistically be used to meet the goals of longer survival, longer time to disease progression, and tumor shrinkage. While choosing a kidney cancer treatment can ...
Source: Kidney Cancer Association - December 3, 2014 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news

Immunotherapy for castration-resistant prostate cancer: Progress and new paradigms.
CONCLUSION: Although immunotherapy has the potential to affect advanced prostate cancer, additional research is needed to (1) identify predictive or surrogate markers of activity, (2) understand which agents are clinically effective alone or in combination with other therapies, and (3) define the optimal timing for an immunotherapy to achieve maximal benefit. PMID: 25575714 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Urologic Oncology - January 6, 2015 Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Quinn DI, Shore ND, Egawa S, Gerritsen WR, Fizazi K Tags: Urol Oncol Source Type: research

Navigating the Treatment Landscape
for Advanced-stage Kidney Cancer Mayer N. Fishman, MD, PhD For the patient with advanced-stage kidney cancer, deciding on a course of treatment presents diverse choices. The physician must weigh how quickly the cancer is spreading, the pattern of that spread, and relative risks from other medical conditions against the patient’s individual treatment goals and medical needs. In many cases of patients with advanced disease, there are therapies that can realistically be used to meet the goals of longer survival, longer time to disease progression, and tumor shrinkage. While choosing a kidney cancer treatment can be a...
Source: Kidney Cancer Association - December 3, 2014 Category: Urology & Nephrology Source Type: news

A Popular Science View of Checkpoint Inhibitor Cancer Immunotherapies
Checkpoint inhibitor therapies are a demonstrably successful approach to cancer immunotherapy. They suppress a mechanism that normally restrains immune cells from attacking other cells. This mechanism is abused by cancers, alongside a variety of other ways in which the immune system can be subverted or quieted. Any advanced tumor tends to have evolved into a state in which it is ignored or even helped by the immune system. Checkpoint inhibitor therapies are an improvement on chemotherapy when it comes to the trade-off between harming the cancer and harming the patient, as well as in the odds of success, but still present r...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 13, 2018 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, January 20th 2020
This study provides strong evidence that following a healthy lifestyle can substantially extend the years a person lives disease-free." Commentary on Recent Evidence for Cognitive Decline to Precede Amyloid Aggregation in Alzheimer's Disease https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2020/01/commentary-on-recent-evidence-for-cognitive-decline-to-precede-amyloid-aggregation-in-alzheimers-disease/ I can't say that I think the data presented in the research noted here merits quite the degree of the attention that it has been given in the popular science press. It is interesting, but not compelling if its role is t...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 19, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

Systemic adjuvant therapy for adult patients at high risk for recurrent cutaneous or mucosal melanoma: an Ontario Health (Cancer Care Ontario) clinical practice guideline.
Authors: Petrella TM, Fletcher GG, Knight G, McWhirter E, Rajagopal S, Song X, Baetz TD Abstract Background: Previous versions of the guideline from the Program in Evidence-Based Care (pebc) at Ontario Health (Cancer Care Ontario) recommended that the use of high-dose interferon alfa 2b therapy be discussed and offered to patients with resected cutaneous melanoma with a high risk of recurrence. Subsequently, several clinical trials in patients with resected or metastatic melanoma found that immune checkpoint inhibitors and targeted therapies have a benefit greater than that with interferon. It was therefore conside...
Source: Current Oncology - March 29, 2020 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: Curr Oncol Source Type: research

Cancer immunotherapy: an evolving paradigm
J Zhejiang Univ Sci B. 2022 Oct 15;23(10):791-792. doi: 10.1631/jzus.B2210001.ABSTRACTThe inhibition of the host's natural immune response by tumor cells was widely reported in the early phases of the development of oncology therapy, and the concept of employing the host's immune system to treat cancer, i.e. tumor immunotherapy, is not new. However, as a result of early theoretical constraints, clinical application of immunotherapy did not go smoothly and lagged significantly behind radiation and chemotherapy. The path has been winding, but the future now seems promising. Immunotherapy research has advanced enormously as a...
Source: J Zhejiang Univ Sci ... - October 13, 2022 Category: Science Authors: Aifu Lin Source Type: research

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