Cervical Cancer

Data from CNCI Advance Knowledge in Cervical Cancer

Published in Women's Health Weekly, November 3rd, 2011

2011 NOV 3 -- "Despite being a pleiotropic cytokine, the therapeutic potential of interferon alpha 2b (IFN alpha 2b) is debatable. Thus, the need for identifying predictive marker(s) for patients who are most likely to benefit from the treatment is pivotal for avoiding the exposure of nonresponsive patients to the toxicity of the treatment," researchers in Calcutta, India report.

"To account for the attenuated efficacy of the drug, we have verified its dendritic cell (DC) maturating ability from monocytes of cervical cancer stage IIIB (CaCx-IIIB) patients. First, we evaluated the status of monocytes from CaCx-IIIB and healthy women by conducting flow...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2011-11-03)

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