Social Impact Case Study:
Using the immune system to treat cancer Each year 14 million people worldwide are diagnosed with cancer, one person every four seconds. The good news is that novel approaches to understanding and treating cancer are being developed every day. The University of Northampton’s Dr Lee Machado, working alongside various dedicated professionals, has spent his career being intrigued by the prospect of developing an immune-based therapy to treat cancer. He explains why:
“Conventional treatments for cancer are pretty toxic. There are often numerous and potent side effects because while most drugs or radiation kill cancer cells, they do not spare our healthy cells. Immunotherapy has the potential to be powerful by attacking the cancer throughout the body wherever it may hide.”
Immunotherapy has long represented the Cinderella of cancer treatment strategies, but remarkable recent successes in the clinic have now thrust immunotherapy back into the limelight. The aim now is to capitalise on these recent successes to reduce the burden of cancer, improving the health and wellbeing of the population.
We support life-changing research like the work of Dr Machado, and you can too.
Find out more about Lee and his research
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