On June 2, the Network for Excellence in Health Innovation (NEHI) will bring experts from across the country to Boston to discuss a critical public health challenge—the abuse of prescription medicines.
Upcoming Forum on Improving Critical Tools for Preventing Prescription Drug Abuse.
New and innovative immunotherapy medicines developed by America’s biopharmaceutical research companies are transforming how we fight cancer and are providing newfound hope to patients.
Rather than killing cancer cells directly with traditional tools like radiation or chemotherapy, immunotherapy seeks to harness the immune system’s power to eliminate the cancer or slow its growth and ability to spread. Research shows immunotherapy is improving outcomes and survival rates for some patients, including kidney and lung cancer. In fact, the American Association for Cancer Research just released new research showing that for advanced-melanoma patients, survival rates are improving thanks in part to these new treatment options.
Biopharmaceutical researchers are urgently working to gain new insights into the complex interactions between patients’ immune systems and the cancer cells growing in their bodies with the goal of markedly improving outcomes in many more tumor types. With 836 medicines and vaccines in development for cancer, 80 percent of which have the potential to be first-in-class treatments, millions of Americans living with cancer have hope for a brighter future.
Stakeholders throughout the health care ecosystem are in agreement that new immunotherapy medicines are providing tremendous value to cancer patients in need. See what they are saying below:
Immunotherapies strengthen the immune system’s natural ability to fight cancer: https://t.co/9vgZ3nt5Lg #AACR16 pic.twitter.com/xEiCIBGbxR
— National Cancer Inst (@theNCI) April 17, 2016
The list of cancers that can be treated by #immunotherapy continues to grow. https://t.co/PdK2QgMNV6 via @AACR
— Dana-Farber (@DanaFarber) April 23, 2016
In @nature: Combining immunotherapy with other treatments could lead to the next big breakthrough in cancer therapy: https://t.co/bnb8MLpAO2
— Stanford Medicine (@StanfordMed) April 15, 2016
#Immunotherapy is a groundbreaking treatment that allows the body to use its own immune system to fight #cancer. pic.twitter.com/aBMdBta4Vl
— JohnsHopkinsMedicine (@HopkinsMedicine) April 5, 2016
#Immunotherapy is changing how we treat cancer. Learn how: https://t.co/lYiTPpzqzz #cancerunmasked pic.twitter.com/1iPdszIodM
— Columbia Medicine (@ColumbiaMed) February 8, 2016
Immunological therapy is changing how oncologists treat cancer https://t.co/UZOO37UEkO #immunotherapy pic.twitter.com/GOevB2JAG7
— Cleveland Clinic MD (@CleClinicMD) April 10, 2016
The promise of #immunotherapy is highlighted by Jimmy Carter’s progress against #melanoma. https://t.co/fyIHPxrkwF pic.twitter.com/ei6E6L6AAq
— AACR Foundation (@AACRFoundation) March 9, 2016
Immunotherapy "is clearly going to be one of the bedrock treatments for cancer" –Dr. Ron DePinho, @MDAndersonNews https://t.co/0nygGcdr81
— The Diane Rehm Show (@drshow) April 24, 2016
