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Most of the indications for immunotherapy are cancers with solid tumors. This source [0] is a bit dated (2017) but it contains a chart showing which cancers had
by mrosett 7y ago
Most of the indications for immunotherapy are cancers with solid tumors. This source [0] is a bit dated (2017) but it contains a chart showing which cancers had an indication for immunotherapy at the time, and they're almost all solid tumors. The initial approvals for the big immunotherapy drugs were for melanoma and non-small cell lung cancer.
[0] https://www.statnews.com/2017/03/08/immunotherapy-cancer-breakthrough/ https://www.statnews.com/2017/03/08/immunotherapy-cancer-bre...
- nonbel 7y ago2017 is a bit dated?
- mrosett 7y agoThe first immunotherapy was approved in March 2011. An article from 2017 listing diseases with approved immunotherapies misses fully 1/3 of the years (3 out of 9) in which immunotherapies have been approved.
- nonbel 7y agoMakes some sense, but that got me wondering if medical guidelines are going to start getting updates every few weeks like web browsers do.