{"id":226707,"date":"2025-12-08T09:04:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T15:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/lower-doses-of-immunotherapy-for-skin-cancer-give-better-results-study-suggests"},"modified":"2025-12-08T09:04:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T15:04:50","slug":"lower-doses-of-immunotherapy-for-skin-cancer-give-better-results-study-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/lower-doses-of-immunotherapy-for-skin-cancer-give-better-results-study-suggests","title":{"rendered":"Lower doses of immunotherapy for skin cancer give better results, study suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lower-doses-of-immunotherapy-for-skin-cancer-give-better-results-study-suggests2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to a new study, lower doses of approved immunotherapy for malignant melanoma can give better results against tumors, while reducing side effects. This is <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/jnci\/djaf327\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe results are highly interesting in oncology, as we show that a lower dose of an immunotherapy drug, in addition to causing significantly fewer side effects, actually gives better results against tumors and longer survival,\u201d says last author Hildur Helgadottir, a researcher at the Department of Oncology\u2013Pathology at Karolinska Institutet, who led the study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a new study, lower doses of approved immunotherapy for malignant melanoma can give better results against tumors, while reducing side effects. This is reported by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. \u201cThe results are highly interesting in oncology, as we show that a lower dose of an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}