10 April 2022
According to an article published in the UK’S Daily Express, an international study evaluated the therapy in a small trial of 24 patients. A third responded well, including two whose tumors shrunk or stopped growing for more than three months.
Professor Kristian Helin, chief executive of the Institute of Cancer Research said: "So far, we've only seen initial findings in a small group of patients but the results look promising and we're optimistic this could be a new type of immunotherapy for cancers that are otherwise hard to treat."
AFM24 is similar to the cutting-edge CAR-T therapy in which the patient's own immune cells are reprogrammed to target cancer. But while CAR-T is personalized, the new method could be cheaper and faster and work against a wider range of cancers.
Source UK Daily Express.
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Cancer is a concerning disease in the Solomon Islands and reportedly a leading cause of death at the National Referral Hospital (NRH) but in the UK there is much research being done into cancer and how it is treated and patients with various forms of cancer being helped with new treatment and given advice on cancer treatment hopes and innovation.
I pose the question of what is known in the Solomon Islands about advances in dealing with cancer, cancer prevention, cancer screening methods, and new forms of medication.
Is the MHMS getting the kind of advice I have highlighted and in particular is the British High Commission in Honiara relaying the news to the MHMS on cancer advances in the UK to allow for local oncologists to be aware of developments in treating cancer and the availability of improved diagnosis of cancer and treatments?
Yours sincerely
Frank Short
