Immunotherapy
Breast CancerImmunotherapyMetastatic Breast Cancer
You have been reading about various forms of management of your disease. Now let us discuss one of the newest forms of systemic treatment—immunotherapy. Sometimes immunotherapy is called biologic therapy, or biotherapy, because it uses the body’s own defense system to fight the breast cancer.
ImmunotherapySkin Cancer
By Chase Doyle
This article reviews the promising findings presented at the 2020 ASCO meeting showing that treatment with the immunotherapy Libtayo may reduce pain and improve survival without disease progression in patients with advanced cutaneous squamous-cell carcinoma, or skin cancer.
ImmunotherapyIssue Introductions
Dive into this special issue focused on immunotherapy, the innovative methods of treating cancer today, with this introduction by Lillie Shockney, RN, BS, MAS, HON-ONN-CG.
Patient StoriesImmunotherapyLymphoma
By Laurie Adami
Laurie Adami chronicles her long fight with follicular lymphoma, including her run-in with 6 types of therapies. After losing all hope, she finally achieved complete remission with a new immunotherapy called CAR T-cell therapy, and then turned her sights on climbing Mt. Everest to raise money for cancer research.
Immunotherapy
By Dana Taylor
Not sure what immunotherapy is and how it works? Read about the cellular mechanism and the various types of immunotherapies, including those that use your own immune system to destroy cancer cells. This article also addresses the side effects of immunotherapy.
ImmunotherapySkin Cancer
By Chase Doyle
Cutaneous squamous-cell carcinoma (CSCC), or skin cancer, is the second most common cancer in the United States. This article examines the results of a recent study on the first and only immunotherapy approved for patients with advanced or metastatic CSCC.
ImmunotherapySkin Cancer
By Chase Doyle
This article reviews the promising findings presented at the 2020 ASCO meeting showing that treatment with the immunotherapy Libtayo may reduce pain and improve survival without disease progression in patients with advanced cutaneous squamous-cell carcinoma, or skin cancer.
ImmunotherapyLung Cancer
By Phoebe Starr
About 15% of lung cancers are small-cell lung cancer, and about one-third of those are extensive-stage small-cell lung cancer. In March 2020, the FDA approved the first immunotherapy, for use with chemotherapy, for first-line treatment of patients with extensive-stage small-cell lung cancer.
Colorectal CancerImmunotherapy
By Chase Doyle
A new study was presented at the 2020 ASCO meeting that compared, for the first time, the use of immunotherapy versus chemotherapy for treating patients with metastatic colorectal cancer and microsatellite instability-high or mismatch repair-deficient abnormalities.
ImmunotherapyLymphoma
By Phoebe Starr
This article discusses findings from a clinical trial showing that Keytruda prolongs the time without disease progression in patients with relapsed or refractory classical Hodgkin lymphoma compared with the current standard of therapy.