Some Chemotherapy Drugs May Increase the Percentage of Patients whose Tumors Respond to Immune Checkpoint Therapy (Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center | Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center)

The use of certain traditional chemotherapy drugs may expand the number of tumors that respond to one of today's most promising cancer therapies - immune checkpoint blockade. Researchers from the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Systems Biology report in the Feb. 16 issue of the journal Immunity that inducing the infiltration of cytotoxic T cells (CTLs) - immune cells that kill cancer cells and cells that are infected or in other ways damaged - into lung tumors sensitized otherwise unre...
Source: National Comprehensive Cancer Network - Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news