RE: Interesting and encouraging immunotherapy article in todays Mail13 Oct 2024 12:54
Dr Paul Mulholland, a brain cancer specialist at University College London – and it has proved remarkably successful.
The breakthrough treatment plan uses ipilimumab – an immunotherapy drug given intravenously that is already used on the NHS to treat skin cancer – to first shrink the tumour.
The drug 'takes the breaks off the immune system', according to experts, helping it seek out and destroy cancerous cells wherever they are.
Cleaner here are a few details from the article