From very early on, researchers and doctors have dreamed of using the body’s own immune system to fight cancer. The big question has been why doesn’t the immune system attack the tumor cells that invade healthy tissue? The really good news is that finally science is catching up with this vision. Therapeutic cancer vaccines that [...]
Many of us are aware of the newly approved drug Zytiga (abiraterone). It had demonstrated a survival advantage for men who are castrate resistant and failed chemotherapy. Zytiga was approved by the FDA in April and many of us with advanced prostate cancer have been taking advantage of the drug. You can learn more about [...]
The most exciting news today is about some research performed at the University of Pennsylvania where researchers took blood from the three leukemia patients and isolated the T cells, a type of immune cell in the blood. T cells recognize invading organisms and kill them, however they do not recognize cancer cells as invading cells, [...]
My recent Letter to the Editor of the New York Times in response to the Op-Ed piece decrying the cost of cancer treatments: Your recent editorial about the high cost of cancer drugs missed a number of very significant points which must be considered. Yes, newly developed cancer drugs are expensive, but when treatments like [...]
Things are looking up for our European readers. It must be frustrating for people outside of the United States to read this blog and learn about the many advances we now have in the US which are not available to them. The good news is that Sanofi has just launched Jevtana (cabazitaxel) in the UK [...]