Harvard’s Wyss Institute may be closer to discovering the cure to fight against the toughest forms of cancer. Researchers are quite positive with the latest works and believe that, by combining chemotherapy and immunotherapy, they’ve finally found a way to counter Triple-Negative Breast cancer. With the spontaneous growth of cancer patients, treatment can be given more efficiently and at a cheaper rate.
The team broke down the experiment by explaining what they discovered: Chemotherapy is essentially poison injected into the body which kills off cancer cells, but with enormous collateral damage to the tissue around it. Immunotherapy, however, tries to increase the patient’s existing immune response to get it to target the cancerous cells. But patients who suffer from Triple-Negative, have less effective treatment because immune suppressant responses in the area around the tumors make it difficult.
Anyways, Wyss researchers took the risk and mixed both chemo-and-immunotherapy drugs together. To support it, they included synthetic DNA strands that improve immune response further, crucially, strands that brings out cancerous cells hiding from treatment. Anything that has to do with cancer cells, and anything that looks like it end up being dead.
In their research facilities, laboratory tests with mice that had Triple-Negative, researchers found that the cocktail improved immune responses by around 8%. It’s still early to celebrate but this could be the breakthrough man has been searching for years to cure patients who have cancer.
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