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CAR-T cell therapy reportedly achieves complete regression in one child's aggressive liver cancer (hepatoblastoma)

A post says a 3-year-old's liver and lung tumors vanished after two CAR-T infusions, with remission lasting over a year.

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Polyunsaturated fats can blunt natural killer cells’ attack on colon cancer in mice

Medical Xpress reports that blocking a cell-entry protein slowed tumor growth and improved immunotherapy effectiveness in mice.

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A backup pathway for cysteine production could be a cancer-treatment target

A post says Montana State University researchers found that mammalian cells can make cysteine by breaking a cystine carbon–sulfur bond when disulfide reductases are deficient.

1 Source, 24d ago, first seen 24d ago

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3-year-old reportedly cancer-free a year after engineered immune-cell treatment

A post says Baylor College of Medicine researchers treated liver cancer that had spread to a child's lungs and stopped responding to chemotherapy.

1 Source, 34d ago, first seen 34d ago

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CAR-T cell therapy reportedly achieves complete regression in one child's aggressive liver cancer (hepatoblastoma)

Polyunsaturated fats can blunt natural killer cells’ attack on colon cancer in mice

A backup pathway for cysteine production could be a cancer-treatment target

3-year-old reportedly cancer-free a year after engineered immune-cell treatment

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CAR-T cell therapy reportedly achieves complete regression in one child's aggressive liver cancer (hepatoblastoma)

Polyunsaturated fats can blunt natural killer cells’ attack on colon cancer in mice

A backup pathway for cysteine production could be a cancer-treatment target

3-year-old reportedly cancer-free a year after engineered immune-cell treatment