Can the immune system cure cancer? Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong discusses a paradigm shift using NK cells to treat tumors without ...

Cancer immunotherapies, including cancer vaccines, harness and amplify the immune system’s natural ability to detect and attack cancer cells. In this illustration, immune T cells (pink) attach to a ...

Most new cancer diagnoses occur in people 65 and older, and overall these folks have worse cancer treatment outcomes, researchers said in background notes. Adobe stock/HealthDay It's well-known that a ...

A hidden “jack-in-the-box” mechanism inside T cells may hold the key to unlocking more powerful cancer immunotherapies.

EPFL researchers have successfully engineered cells of the immune system to more effectively recognize cancer cells. The work ...

One of the most exciting advances in cancer treatments in the past decade is the development of T cell immunotherapies, in ...

Humans have been attempting to combat cancer since the time of the Ancient Egyptians, and recent decades have seen remarkable progress. However, tumor cells have developed sophisticated ways to evade ...

Dr. Amany Keruakous sat down for an interview with CURE, in which she discussed how bispecific antibodies for multiple ...

Researchers at MIT and Stanford University have developed a new way to stimulate the immune system to attack tumor cells. Using molecules known as AbLecs, which consist of a lectin attached to a tumor ...

No matter where cancer cells grow in the human body, they are a threat to our health and our lives. But instead of treating them with chemotherapy or radiation - which have undesirable side effects - ...

Following on from their breakthrough human trial that successfully reprogrammed the immune system to overpower glioblastoma, an aggressive brain tumor, the same scientists have now further developed ...

Breast cancer can rapidly derail the brain’s day-night regulation of stress hormones, even before tumors are detectable.