Posted in Liver Cancer
Immunotherapy Is Best Given Before Liver Cancer Surgery
Posted by Manuela Boyle
on 21 January 2022
Recent research has shown that immunotherapy given before surgery caused liver cancer tumours to die off in one-third of the patients enrolled in a first-of-its-kind clinical trial.
Mount Sinai researchers reported their findings in The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology - January 2022
The phase 2 trial results suggested that the neo-adjuvant immunotherapy -- therapy given before surgery -- may kill not only the tumour, but also microscopic cancer cells that surgery would miss and tha...
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