Can immunotherapy treat breast cancer? For certain patients, the answer is yes.
Two immunotherapy drugs — atezolizumab and pembrolizumab — are approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for patients with metastatic triple-negative breast cancer. Both of these are immune checkpoint inhibitors, the most common type of immunotherapy.
To understand how these drugs work, which breast cancer patients are benefiting and...
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“I was interested in the why, so I spent my time reading, asking...
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When I got my second cancer diagnosis in early 2017, I was already going to MD Anderson regularly to see Dr. Alessandra Ferrajoli. I’d been...
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Getting the most accurate mammogram results possible...
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