New treatment destroys head and neck cancer tumours in trial
by Andrew Gregory Health editor from Science | The Guardian on (#5QK62)
Exclusive: combination of drugs causes tumours to vanish in some terminally ill patients, study finds
A new cancer treatment can wipe out tumours in terminally ill head and neck cancer patients, scientists have discovered.
In a landmark trial, a cocktail of immunotherapy medications harnessed patients' immune systems to kill their own cancer cells and prompted a positive trend in survival", according to researchers at the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR), London, and the Royal Marsden NHS foundation trust.
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