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Low-Dose Immunotherapy: Is It Just an Illusion?

The development and use of immunotherapy in the last decade have led to a drastic improvement in results in the onco-haematological field. This has implied, on the one hand, the need for clinicians to manage a new type of adverse event and, on the other hand, a significant increase in costs. However...

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Autores principales: Meriggi, Fausto, Zaniboni, Alberto, Zaltieri, Anna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10136204/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37189650
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biomedicines11041032
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description The development and use of immunotherapy in the last decade have led to a drastic improvement in results in the onco-haematological field. This has implied, on the one hand, the need for clinicians to manage a new type of adverse event and, on the other hand, a significant increase in costs. However, emerging scientific evidence suggests that, as with other drugs in the recent past, the registry dosage can be drastically reduced for immunotherapies without penalizing their effectiveness. This would also lead to an important reduction in costs, expanding the audience of cancer patients who could access immunotherapy-based treatments. In this “Commentary”, we analyze the available evidence of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics and the most recent literature in favor of low-dose immunotherapy.
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spelling pubmed-101362042023-04-28 Low-Dose Immunotherapy: Is It Just an Illusion? Meriggi, Fausto Zaniboni, Alberto Zaltieri, Anna Biomedicines Commentary The development and use of immunotherapy in the last decade have led to a drastic improvement in results in the onco-haematological field. This has implied, on the one hand, the need for clinicians to manage a new type of adverse event and, on the other hand, a significant increase in costs. However, emerging scientific evidence suggests that, as with other drugs in the recent past, the registry dosage can be drastically reduced for immunotherapies without penalizing their effectiveness. This would also lead to an important reduction in costs, expanding the audience of cancer patients who could access immunotherapy-based treatments. In this “Commentary”, we analyze the available evidence of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics and the most recent literature in favor of low-dose immunotherapy. MDPI 2023-03-27 /pmc/articles/PMC10136204/ /pubmed/37189650 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biomedicines11041032 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Low-Dose Immunotherapy: Is It Just an Illusion?
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title_short Low-Dose Immunotherapy: Is It Just an Illusion?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10136204/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37189650
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biomedicines11041032
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