Novel Strategies for Cancer Treatment: Highlights from the 55th IACR Annual Conference.

ABSTRACT: While conventional cancer treatments, such as surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy, have been combined for decades in an effort to treat cancer patients, the emergence of novel fields of cancer research have led to a renewed interest in combining conventional treatments with more innovative approaches. The realisation that cancer progression is not exclusively due to changes in the cancer epithelial cells, but also involves changes in the tumour microenvironment, has opened new avenues for combination treatments. Here we discuss the use of combination therapies presented at the 55th Irish Association for Cancer Research (IACR) Annual Conference, highlighting examples of novel therapeutic strategies which, combined with conventional therapies, may greatly enhance not only the overall outc

SUBMITTER: Charmsaz S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6721818 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature