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ReviewHeliyon2023

An extension of cancer immunotherapy with dostarlimab, the PD1-PD L1 pathway blocker.

Sitangshu Sekhar Biswas, Sarath BabuV, Abhipsa Chakraborty, Amarnath Chakraborty, Hasheetha Jayashankar, Kudiyarasan Swamynathan

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Review in Heliyon, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Sitangshu Sekhar BiswasIndependent Researcher,SRMIST, Chennai, India.
Sarath BabuVAssociate Professor of Physiology, Vels Medical College & Hospital, India.
Abhipsa Chakraborty.Freelancer, Amity University, Kolkata, India.
Amarnath ChakrabortyPeerless Hospital and BK Roy Research Center, Kolkata, India.
Hasheetha JayashankarJunior Research Fellow, Central Council for Research in Homoeopathy, Goa, India.
Kudiyarasan SwamynathanElectrical Group, Bharatiya Nabhikya Vidyut Nigam Limited (BHAVINI), Department of Atomic Energy, Kalpakkam, Tamilnadu, 603 102, India.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cancer immunotherapy is a treatment that uses the body's own immune system to fight against cancer. Malignant cells in the human body have the ability to mutate themselves in such a way that they can escape from immune system surveillance and proliferate. So, if the human immune system could be boosted or its surveillance and defensive mechanisms improved so that our bodies can detect cancer cells and kill them by combining all of the human body's defensive mechanisms, it would be much easier to deal with cancer. A recent trial at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York found that by using a drug called Dostarlimab, rectal adenocarcinoma could be cured by boosting the human immune system to detect and kill cancer cells. This could be considered a validated extension of cancer immunotherapy. This paper will explain how dostarlimab works on the body's immune system and destroys cancer cells in a simple way that anyone who is not in the medical field also can understand.

Indexed as

B7.1Cancer immunotherapyDostarlimabMonoclonal antibodyPD1PD L1

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PMID38076194
PMCPMC10703850

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