Therapeutic cancer vaccines have experienced a remarkable resurgence over the past decade, representing a paradigm shift in oncology toward harnessing the immune system's intrinsic ability to combat ...

Chemotherapy can be life-saving for many patients, but not all tumors respond—and some that do, may eventually become ...

Hanzlik’s multiple sclerosis was destroying her freedom to live the life she wanted. She gave up her active nursing job for a desk role. Frequent falls made her afraid to carry her grandchildren. She ...

In recent years, cancer researchers have made major breakthroughs by using the body's immune system to fight cancer. One of the most promising approaches, known as immune checkpoint blockade, works by ...

Researchers have identified a pathway that triggers an immune response in cells with defective DNA repair. In particular, the ...

Investigators analyzed the immune-modulatory cancer vaccine IO102-IO103 plus pembrolizumab for PFS in patients with untreated advanced melanoma.

Chimeric antigen receptor-T (CAR-T) cell therapy represents a major breakthrough in cancer immunotherapy, providing remarkable clinical benefits for ...

A common blood pressure drug may help a major class of cancer therapies work far better than expected. A widely prescribed ...

Today, many people who receive cancer diagnoses have more treatment options than in the past. However, for some cancers, like pancreatic cancer, surgery and chemotherapy remain the only available ...

Pancreatic cancer is notoriously lethal. But new treatments mean that may be changing, and people with the disease now have ...