Low-Dose Immunotherapy: Is It Just an Illusion?

Biomedicines

Pharmacy Unit, Poliambulanza Foundation Hospital Institute, Via Leonida Bissolati 57, 25124 Brescia, Italy.

Published: March 2023

The development and use of immunotherapy in the last decade have led to a drastic improvement in results in the onco-haematological field. This has implied, on the one hand, the need for clinicians to manage a new type of adverse event and, on the other hand, a significant increase in costs. However, emerging scientific evidence suggests that, as with other drugs in the recent past, the registry dosage can be drastically reduced for immunotherapies without penalizing their effectiveness. This would also lead to an important reduction in costs, expanding the audience of cancer patients who could access immunotherapy-based treatments. In this "Commentary", we analyze the available evidence of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics and the most recent literature in favor of low-dose immunotherapy.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10136204PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biomedicines11041032DOI Listing

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