Immune-Based Therapy May Be Tool Against Melanoma in the Brain

Excerpt from UPI:

“A type of therapy that harnesses the immune system is giving new hope to people battling a once hopeless cancer — melanoma that’s spread to the brain.

“New research involving more than 2,700 U.S. patients is confirming what specialists in the field have long known — that “checkpoint blockade” treatment can beat back these devastating tumors.”

Go to full article published by UPI on July 12, 2018.

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