New immununotherapy shown to shrink glioblastomas in small trial

US researchers used immunotherapy to target two proteins commonly found in glioblastomas.
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Delivering dual-targeted, immune-focused chimeric antigen receptor T-cell cancer therapy via a patient’s spinal fluid has been shown to reduce the size of glioblastomas in a small US trial.

MRI brain scans of all six patients enrolled in the phase I trial showed rapid tumour reductions occurring within a day or two of treatment, according to results published in Nature Medicine.