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Aspirin found to enhance effectiveness of immunotherapy
Published Fri, Sep 4, 2015 · 09:50 PM
London
GIVING cheap aspirin to cancer patients may turbo-charge the effectiveness of expensive new medicines that help their immune systems fight tumours, experiments on mice suggest.
Immunotherapy promises to revolutionise cancer care by offering a better, longer-lasting response with fewer adverse side effects than conventional treatment, but the new drugs do not work well in all cases.
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