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Approximately one-quarter of patients with advanced lung cancer develop brain metastases. The standard treatment for these patients — radiation — can sometimes result in significant toxicity. Immunotherapy with checkpoint inhibitors has shown efficacy in various cancers, including lung cancer. Approximately one-quarter of patients with advanced lung cancer develop brain metastases.
The standard treatment for these patients — radiation — can sometimes result in significant toxicity.
Immunotherapy with checkpoint inhibitors has shown efficacy in various cancers, including lung cancer. However, the activity of immunotherapy in the brain had not been studied extensively.
- July 07, 2020Source: New Haven Independent
“The bottom line is that the impacts of Covid-19 on children is minimal or very low compared to other age groups,” said Yale School of Public Health professor Albert Ko.
- July 07, 2020Source: U.S News & World Report
7 Best Immunity Boosters
- July 06, 2020Source: WTNH News 8
Alabama students hold COVID-19 parties with prize for first sick person
- July 06, 2020Source: WTNH News 8
Experts discuss ear, nose and throat care, pool sampling amid pandemic
- July 06, 2020Source: CNN
Here's what pooled testing is and how it can be used for the coronavirus
- July 03, 2020Source: CNBC
A new survey from the Centers for Disease Control found that 54% of people who tested positive for Covid-19 couldn’t pinpoint how they contracted the virus. The remaining 46% of respondents could recall having close contact with a person — commonly a family member or coworker — who was also diagnosed with Covid-19.
- July 02, 2020Source: Independent Institute
This May, President Trump unveiled Operation Warp Speed, a partnership between federal regulatory agencies and private drug producers that aims to develop and distribute a Covid-19 vaccine by January. The president described the project’s lofty goal of achieving a pioneering scientific discovery in record-breaking time as “unlike anything our country has seen since The Manhattan Project.”
- July 02, 2020Source: WTNH Channel 8
Blood clots in COVID-19 patients that can lead to severe illness or death have puzzled researchers as they strive to learn more about how the virus attacks the body.
- July 02, 2020Source: New Haven Register
A study has found a biomarker in patients’ blood that can predict which coronavirus patients are most likely to develop potentially fatal clotting.
