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IMAGE: McMaster researchers Ali Ashkar and Sophie Poznanski have developed a promising new form of treatment for lung cancer using a combination of two immunotherapies. view more
Credit: Georgia Kirkos, McMaster University
HAMILTON, ON, Jan. 21, 2020 McMaster University researchers have established in lab settings that a novel combination of two forms of immunotherapy can be highly effective for treating lung cancer, which causes more deaths than any other form of cancer.
The new treatment, yet to be tested on patients, uses one form of therapy to kill a significant number of lung tumor cells, while triggering changes to the tumor that enable the second therapy to finish the job.