Tipping the balance - improving response rates to cancer immunotherapy

某些类型癌症的存活率仍然很低。此前人们认为，化疗不能与影响免疫系统的药物(免疫疗法)相结合来治疗癌症。我的研究驳斥了这一点。我在实验室里开发模型来研究癌症。我还研究如何测量人们的身体对化疗和免疫治疗(生物标记物)的反应。我利用这些信息来发现新的药物组合，以减少癌症死亡。

Survival rates for some types of cancer remain low. It was previously thought that chemotherapy could not be combined with drugs that affect the immune system (immunotherapy) to treat cancer. My research disproved this. I develop models to study cancer in the lab. I also research ways to measure how people’s bodies respond to chemotherapy and immunotherapy (biomarkers). I use this information to discover new drug combinations to reduce deaths from cancer.