Category Archives: Immune System

Taking loads of vitamin B could increase your risk of lung cancer

The price of supplements might be pretty steep. By Kendra Pierre-Louis c/o Popular Science magazine – August 23, 2017 Large doses of vitamin B might cause more harm than good.CITAlliance via Deposit Photos B vitamins are often sold with the promise of boosting flagging energy levels. But men who smoke might want to skip them,

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How It Works: Cancer-Fighting Immunotherapy

Training the immune system to kill tumors c/o Popular Science magazine March 20, 2015 Immune Cells Courtesy imuc.com In the war against cancer, doctors have discovered a powerful new tool: the immune system. The FDA recently fast-tracked approval of three new immunotherapy drugs, called PD-1 inhibitors, designed to help white blood cells hunt down and

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Personalised drug cocktail implant

Personalised medicine is becoming precision medicine n the fight against cancer. The present concern is with combining the several drugs that the patient may require into a cocktail to fight their disease. How these drugs interact with each other and how they then affect the patient as a result, is unknown. Lab tests only go

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Immunotherapy – in brief

Training our own immune system to fight cancer is proving to be a very useful tool. A short article on how Immunotherapy works, from Popular Science:

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