Oncology

Some collaborations change the face of treatment scenario, and this collaboration is one example of that. An immunologist collaborated with an oncologist to help fight the immunologist’s stepmother fight cancer, and turned the face of transformative therapy. The discovery is of a new class of drugs that help in bypassing a molecular break that stops the immune system from attacking tumors. The main problem in cancer is that patients immunotherapy doesn’t always work. Here, the researchers identified a unique type of immune-system cell that helps in predicting whether patients will respond to one of the medicines or not—significantly sorting out patients that can positi...