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Immunotherapy could help advanced bowel cancer patients

Advanced bowel cancer patients who have stopped responding to one of the main drugs used to treat it could be helped by immunotherapy, researchers have found. Researchers at the Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) in London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, have been exploring how tumours become resistant to cetuximab. They looked at 35 people with advanced bowel cancer and found that cancer-killing immune cells were on average six times more active in tumours that had become resistant...

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