Combination Therapy Shows Promise Against Skin Cancers by Angela Mohan on April 9, 2021 at 3:36 PM
Combination drug therapy found to be safe and effective against advanced skin cancer in patients who were not able to have their tumors surgically removed.
The drug combination is among the first, researchers say, to demonstrate the potential value of a live common cold virus, a coxsackievirus, to infect and kill cancer cells.
The Phase I study, led by a researcher at NYU Langone Health and its Perlmutter Cancer Center, is also among the first to show how such oncolytic viruses can safely boost the action of widely used cancer therapies that help the body s immune defense system detect and kill cancer cells.