Cancer Immunotherapy Looks to Exploit Hair Loss Gene

For many patients diagnosed with cancer, hair loss is often an inevitable consequence of various therapeutic interventions. Yet, what if instead of worrying about trying to abolish the negative hair loss side-effect of cancer therapies, scientists were able to exploit hair-loss genetics to improve the new wave of immunotherapy compounds. Well, that is exactly what a group of investigators at Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC) have accomplished. Findings from the new study, publish