Encouraging article in the NYT regarding a possible way to make immunotherapy work well for prostate cancer given PD-L1 discoveries...

[JLS1]

VERY interesting article in the NYT last Thursday:

"By Matt Richtel

April 4, 2019

Cancer immunotherapy drugs, which spur the body’s own immune system to attack tumors, hold great promise but still fail many patients. New research may help explain why some cancers elude the new class of therapies, and offer some clues to a solution.

The study, published on Thursday in the journal Cell, focuses on colorectal and prostate cancer. These are among the cancers that seem largely impervious to a key mechanism of immunotherapy drugs."........

nytimes.com/2019/04/04/heal...

[tallguy2]

Thanks for posting this article. The conclusion: “Interfering with the PD-L1 traveling to lymph nodes “can lead to a long-lasting, systemic, anti-tumor immunity,” the paper concluded.” Is extremely promising.

[NPfisherman]

I agree with tallguy2...this is promising...they don't say how they blocked/interfered with the PD-L1...Would be interested in that information...Science is amazing...

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