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In The late 1800s a New York doctor noticed that getting an infection after surgery helped some cancer patients. So he began to treat cancer using infections and had a little success. But many doctors were sceptical of his work, and other treatments such as radiation therapy and chemotherapy eventually took off. Today, however, the pharmaceutical industry understands how his treatments would have worked and has placed a sizeable bet that immuno-oncology-the treatment of cancer using the body's immune system-will yield breakthrough drugs. Earlier this month one of a promising new class of immuno-oncology drugs was approved for use in America by the Food and Drug Administration (fda). Developed by Merck, pembrolizumab will be used to treat advanced melanoma, a skin cancer. Another American firm, Bristol-Myers Squibb, hopes to gain fda approval soon for its melanoma treatment, nivolu-mab, which is already in use in Japan.
机译:1800年代后期,一位纽约医生注意到手术后感染有助于某些癌症患者。因此,他开始使用感染治疗癌症,并取得了一些成功。但是许多医生对他的工作持怀疑态度,最终放射疗法和化学疗法等其他疗法开始兴起。然而,今天,制药行业已经了解他的治疗方法是如何工作的,并做出了很大的赌注,即免疫肿瘤学(利用人体免疫系统治疗癌症)将产生突破性的药物。本月初,美国食品和药物管理局(fda)批准了一种有前途的新型免疫肿瘤药物在美国使用。由默克公司开发的pembrolizumab将用于治疗晚期黑色素瘤(一种皮肤癌)。另一家美国公司Bristol-Myers Squibb希望其黑色素瘤治疗药物nivolu-mab尽快获得fda的批准,该药物已在日本使用。

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    《The economist》 |2014年第8906期|65-66|共2页
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