All Posts: immunotherapy

• Mechanism for How Pancreatic Cancer Evades Immunotherapy Elucidated

  Discovery could lead to new or improved therapeutic options. WASHINGTON (January 28, 2021) — Pancreatic cancer, one of the most lethal of all cancers, is capable of evading attacks by immune cells by changing its microenvironment so that the immune cells suppress, rather than support, an attack on the tumor, according to a study led […]

  Category: News Release Tags: cancer, cancer research, immunotherapy, pancreatic cancer

• Boosting Stem Cell Activity Can Enhance Immunotherapy Benefits

  WASHINGTON (November 23, 2020) — Immune-system T cells have been reprogrammed into regenerative stem cell-like memory (TSCM) cells that are long-lived, highly active “super immune cells” with strong antitumor activity, according to new research from Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. The reprogramming involves a novel approach the researchers developed that inhibits the activity of proteins […]

  Category: News Release Tags: cancer research, immunotherapy, T cells, The Loop Immunology and Immunotherapy Laboratory

• Immunotherapy Combo Halts Rare, Stage 4 Sarcoma in Teen

  NUTLEY, NJ (October 14, 2020) — A patient with end-stage and rapidly progressing soft-tissue cancer whose tumor did not respond to standard treatment had a “rapid and complete response” to a novel combination of immunotherapy, according to new research published by a team of scientists from John Theurer Cancer Center at Hackensack University Medical Center […]

  Category: News Release Tags: cancer, cancer research, epithelioid sarcoma, Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center Consortium, Hackensack Meridian John Theurer Cancer Center, immunotherapy, sarcoma

• Precision Medicine and Immunotherapy: Tomorrow's Cancer Treatments Today at Georgetown Lombardi

  Diane Lucey’s unusual cancer stumped her doctors. But after ordering a profile of her tumor, medical oncologist Louis Weiner knew exactly how to proceed.

  Category: Lombardi Stories Tags: cancer, immunotherapy, precision medicine

• A Cancer Survivors’ Luncheon Like No Other

  (April 30, 2016) — Last year, Stanley Sher, a lawyer who lives in D.C., was certain his time was ending. “I had reached a very low, low point — three surgeries, radiation treatment and nothing had worked,” he said. “I was several months away from disappearing.” Leta Brown had a similar experience when, at age […]

  Category: Lombardi Stories Tags: cancer, immunotherapy, melanoma