Virginia Tech reseachers pioneer cancer immunotherapy, localizing cytokines in tumors for enhanced treatment.
Rong Tong and Wenjun “Rebecca” Cai, professors at Virginia Tech, have teamed up to explore a new cancer treatment.
One rising contender is immunotherapy, which taps into the body’s immune system to combat cancer cells. Thus, Tong and Cai’s method aims to utilize cytokine proteins for potential immunotherapy. Unlike past approaches, their technique guarantees prolonged localization of immune cell-stimulating cytokines within tumors, maintaining the cytokines’ structure and reactivity levels.Conventional cancer therapies like chemotherapy lack specificity, targeting both healthy and cancerous cells indiscriminately.
According to Tong, although scientists previously determined that cytokines can help activate and fight against tumors, they didn’t know how to localize them inside the tumor while not exposing toxicity to the rest of the body.
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