New York Proton Center Advances Mesothelioma Treatment

New York Proton Center Advances Mesothelioma Treatment

The recent opening York Proton New York Proton Center could natural history mesothelioma cancer. Yes, located East Harlem, 140, state-of-the-art dedicated to providing cancer with finest radiation world. It treating this month. It is first only center state York, therapy is a highly more precise form radiation therapy. Proton therapy deliver radiation more safely mesothelioma patients, along with systemic therapy.

Patients with mesothelioma are now eligible for a multicancer clinical trial studying the effectiveness of personalized immunotherapy at the University of California, San Diego Medical Center. The phase I clinical trial involves a combination of Keytruda (pembrolizumab), a proven immunotherapy drug, and an individualized vaccine based upon the genetic mutations found in each patient’s cancer. “This is the future of cancer treatment,” Dr. Ezra Cohen, principal investigator and director of the San Diego Center for Precision Immunotherapy, small cell mesothelioma told The Mesothelioma Center at Asbestos. com. “Now, we still have a lot to learn, and will continue to do so, but this is the future. We’re convinced. ” Cohen has collaborated with Stephen Schoenberger, Ph. D. , professor at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology, in developing a technology that can identify the foreign protein fragments specific to an individual and their tumor. A vaccine is then used to induce a stronger, more sustainable immune response.

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