Karmanos couples tumor cryoablation with immunotherapy

Scientists at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute today presented data at the American Association for Cancer Research's 102nd Annual Meeting 2011 showing that when tumor cryoablation - or the freezing of tumor tissue while preserving tumor-associated antigens - is coupled with immune system modulation, the procedures have the potential to initiate or amplify tumor immunity. The presentation was given by Jesse Veenstra, a student in the M.D./Ph.D. program at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Institute and Wayne State University School of Medicine and co-author of the study. His fellow authors are Peter Littrup, M.D., radiologist and director of the Imaging Core and Radiological Research at Karmanos and WSU SOM, and Wei-Zen Wei, Ph.D., associate center director of Basic Sciences at Karmanos and professor in the Department of Oncology, WSU SOM.

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