{"id":8214,"date":"2020-07-22T07:56:27","date_gmt":"2020-07-22T07:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=8214"},"modified":"2020-07-22T07:56:27","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T07:56:27","slug":"immunotherapy-safe-for-cancer-patients-with-covid-19-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=8214","title":{"rendered":"Immunotherapy Safe for Cancer Patients with COVID-19: Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>                            <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"News Picture: Immunotherapy Safe for Cancer Patients with COVID-19: Study\" class=\"healthday_image\" src=\"https:\/\/media.healthday.com\/Images\/icimages\/59164.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>MONDAY, July 20, 2020 (HealthDay News)<\/p>\n<p>Immunotherapy for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/cancer\/article.htm\" onclick=\"wmdTrack('embd-lnk');\" rel=\"dt\">cancer<\/a> patients with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/wuhan_coronavirus_2019-ncov\/article.htm\" onclick=\"wmdTrack('embd-lnk');\" rel=\"dt\">COVID-19<\/a> appears safe, a preliminary study suggests.<\/p>\n<p>The treatments activate a person&#8217;s immune system against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/cancer_101_pictures_slideshow\/article.htm\" onclick=\"wmdTrack('embd-lnk');\" rel=\"slide\">cancer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers have been wary, because many <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/wuhan_coronavirus_outbreak_2019-ncov\/article.htm\" onclick=\"wmdTrack('embd-lnk');\" rel=\"slide\">COVID-19<\/a> complications result from an overactive immune response that leads to increased production of proteins called cytokines that can cause issues such as respiratory failure.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In patients with both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/wuhan_coronavirus_2019-ncov_symptoms_and_signs\/symptoms.htm\" onclick=\"wmdTrack('embd-lnk');\" rel=\"sym\">COVID-19<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/cancer_quiz\/quiz.htm\" onclick=\"wmdTrack('embd-lnk');\" rel=\"quiz\">cancer<\/a>, our team thought that immunotherapy might increase the immune system response, which could already be overactive because of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/wuhan_coronavirus_2019-ncov\/article.htm\" rel=\"dt\" onclick=\"wmdTrack('embd-lnk');\">COVID-19<\/a> infection,&#8221; researcher Layne Weatherford said in a University of Cincinnati news release. He is a postdoctoral fellow at the university.<\/p>\n<p>For this ongoing study, the researchers are using blood samples from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/cancer\/article.htm\" rel=\"dt\" onclick=\"wmdTrack('embd-lnk');\">cancer<\/a> patients with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/wuhan_coronavirus_outbreak_2019-ncov\/article.htm\" rel=\"slide\" onclick=\"wmdTrack('embd-lnk');\">COVID-19<\/a>. They are looking at how the therapy affects the immune cells of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/wuhan_coronavirus_2019-ncov_symptoms_and_signs\/symptoms.htm\" rel=\"sym\" onclick=\"wmdTrack('embd-lnk');\">COVID-19<\/a> patients, as well as patients with both COVID-19 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/cancer_101_pictures_slideshow\/article.htm\" rel=\"slide\" onclick=\"wmdTrack('embd-lnk');\">cancer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary data show that a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/diabetes_mellitus\/article.htm\" onclick=\"wmdTrack('embd-lnk');\" rel=\"dt\">diabetes<\/a> drug, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/metformin\/article.htm\" onclick=\"wmdTrack('embd-lnk');\" rel=\"pharm\">metformin<\/a>, can reduce production of cytokine proteins in COVID-19 patients.<\/p>\n<p>More research is needed, but the researchers said it may be possible to treat COVID-19 complications with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/metformin\/article.htm\" rel=\"pharm\" onclick=\"wmdTrack('embd-lnk');\">metformin<\/a> or a similar drug.<\/p>\n<p>Weatherford noted that patients with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/cancer_quiz\/quiz.htm\" rel=\"quiz\" onclick=\"wmdTrack('embd-lnk');\">cancer<\/a> are more susceptible to COVID-19 as well as severe complications from it.<\/p>\n<p>The findings were to be presented Monday at a virtual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research. Studies presented at meetings are typically considered preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Steven Reinberg<\/p>\n<p class=\"credits\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MedicalNews\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/images.medicinenet.com\/images\/HealthDay\/healthday.png\" style=\"border: none;\"\/><br \/>Copyright \u00a9 2020 HealthDay. 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The treatments activate a person&#8217;s immune system against cancer. Researchers have been wary, because many COVID-19 complications result from an overactive immune response that leads to increased production of proteins called cytokines [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-life-style"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/1594789020_fb-mnet-default.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}