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	Podcast:		UC Science Today
	Episode:		The great potential of immunotherapy in the fight against cancer
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		00:01:02
	Publish Date:		2017-01-26 18:00:00
	Description:		Doctors may soon be able to cure more cancers with immunotherapy, thanks to new technologies to fight malignant tumors. Wendell Lim, a molecular scientist at the University of California, San Francisco, has designed smart immune T-cells that he says now more than ever have a better chance to defeat the disease. "That’s where I think this idea that we really have to attack the problem from two sides. We really have to provide T-cells that can effectively recognize and kill the cancers, as well as ways to counteract immunosuppression." Immunotherapy has shown some success in treating melanoma and lung cancers, but solid tumors - the majority of cancers – are still a challenge. “The immune system has this kind of potential. I'm pretty optimistic that our understanding and the tools that we have in immunotherapy are just really accelerating at a dramatic pace." The Food and Drug Administration may approve first therapies with engineered T-cells as early as this year.
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