Subcutaneous immunotherapy injections work the same way as their intravenous counterparts — by changing or enhancing a person’s immune responses to cancer. Immunotherapy for cancer is a broad category ...

Tumours have developed many strategies and tricks to gain advantages in the body. Led by cell biology professor Sabine Werner, researchers at ETH Zurich have now discovered another surprising trick ...

Among patients with advanced melanoma, long-term data have shown that a personalized mRNA cancer vaccine, when combined with the immunotherapy Keytruda (pembrolizumab), has been associated with a 49% ...

In A Nutshell Starting aspirin after age 70 did not prevent cancer in a study of nearly 20,000 older adults followed for ...

At first glance, dinosaur fossils and modern cancer research may seem worlds apart. But a new study suggests that soft tissue preserved for millions of years inside ancient bones could offer valuable ...

If you have metastatic breast cancer that’s hormone receptor-positive (HR+) and HER2-negative, your treatment plan looks very different from how it might have decades ago. Instead of relying on ...

Breast cancer treatments like surgery, radiation therapy and chemo put a lot of demands on your body. Treatments and their side effects can affect the way you eat and how your body tolerates certain ...

Immunofluorescence microscopy images display dendritic cells in two distinct states. The left panel shows a dendritic cell in its naïve, unactivated form. The right panel presents a dendritic cell ...