Moffitt Cancer Center researchers, led by cancer biologist Eric Lau, demonstrated how L-fucose, a nontoxic dietary plant sugar that is enriched in red and brown seaweeds, can increase tumor infiltrating lymphocytes, promote antitumor immunity, and improve the efficacy of immunotherapy.
Research from the University of Pittsburgh explains why metastatic uveal melanoma is resistant to conventional immunotherapies and how adoptive therapy, which involves growing a patient’s T cells outside the body before reinfusing them, can successfully treat this rare and aggressive cancer.
