Oncologists Investigate the Utility of Microbiota Transplantation to Improve Lung Cancer Treatment

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MONTREAL — Chinese researchers have been successful in using immunotherapy to fight solid tumours, which represents an important breakthrough in this area. Immunotherapy is boiling and is at the root of the most promising breakthroughs in the fight against cancer over the last decade, but the successes have been mainly faced with liquid, or haematopoietic cancers, such as leukemia. "It is frustrating, because solid tumours are much more frequent…

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The Spanish Lung Cancer Group (GEPC) made history five years ago proposing a change of strategy in the treatment of some types of lung cancer: by adding immunotherapy to conventional chemotherapy before surgery it was possible to increase survival by up to 20% in some patients. It was the Nadim study, whose results have changed the clinical practice in the treatment of this tumor worldwide. At the last American Congress of Oncology, the most lea…

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T Car Cell Immunotherapy versus Solid Tumors. Source: BMS Science / Fair use The origins of chemotherapy date back to the distant decade of the fifties of the last century and, throughout this time, has become the most direct and effective tool against some types of cancer. However, the advancement of new therapies in this field had slowed down until, with the new century, a much less invasive and aggressive alternative emerged: immunotherapy.