Cancer Immunotherapy (Animal Models)

Combination Immune Therapy Kills Melanoma in Mice

Published in Vaccine Weekly, August 16th, 1999

Scientists have developed a promising technique for treating the most aggressive forms of the skin cancer melanoma. The new therapy may also work for prostate cancer.

The technique works by simultaneously stimulating the body's natural immune response and dampening a mechanism that normally protects the body from attack by its own immune cells.

"This two-pronged approach not only kills tumors in mice, but it also produces a characteristic response that we see in the few humans with aggressive melanoma who survive the disease, whether through therapy or spontaneous remission," said James Allison, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at the...

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