How the body’s immune system can deliver a cure for cancer
Read the University of Southampton’s Professor Mark Cragg’s piece in The Conversation on how weaponising the body’s immune system can deliver a cure for cancer.
Cancer drug combination ‘shrinks 60% of melanomas’
Read the BBC news item on how ‘a pair of cancer drugs can shrink tumours in nearly 60% of people with advanced melanoma’. Further good news for immunotherapy breakthroughs.
Terminal cancers are being cured as new drugs turn patients’ own bodies against disease
Radical immunotherapy treatment could lead to half of advanced sufferers making a full recovery and kick off a whole new era in fighting the illness. Read the full story in the Mirror and hear from our own Professor Peter Johnson.
The University of Southampton to open the UK’s first dedicated cancer immunology centre in 2017
The University of Southampton has launched an ambitious £25m fundraising campaign to build a multi-million-pound centre for groundbreaking cancer research in Southampton. Read further coverage in the Daily Echo.
Southampton’s cancer immunology centre campaign launched
The University of Southampton has launched a fundraising campaign for the UK’s first dedicated cancer immunology centre. Read the BBC coverage about our campaign to raise £25m for the new research centre, to open in 2017
Treatment could save half of all terminal patients
Half of patients suffering deadly cancers could make full recoveries thanks to a new treatment which has stunned doctors with its success.
Promising developments in tackling resistance to blood cancer drugs
A new drug with the potential to reverse resistance to immunotherapy has been developed by scientists at the University of Southampton.
University students run ABP Southampton Half Marathon to raise money for the campaign
More than 70 University students and staff are taking on the race to cure cancer by hitting the roads in the ABP Southampton Half Marathon.
Scientists discover new antibody in fight against cancer
Read the Huffington Post article on how the University of Southampton is leading the fight against cancer .
Number of immune cells in tumours could soon help predict and treat cancers
Read the article in The Conversation on how Immune cells can also keep us free from cancer.