Cancer researchers working on immunotherapies have made a big discovery: SLAMF6, a molecule on the surface of immune cells that prevents T cells from effectively attacking tumors—and, in mice, they've ...

Researchers recently tried an experiment: Gather people who had the same kind of lung cancer and put them on the same type of treatments to fire up their immune systems. The only difference was that ...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — “As soon as the urologist said, oh it’s cancer…that is an eye-opener,” says Mark Stiegler, reflecting on his diagnosis six years ago. Stiegler has faced bladder cancer and three ...

Researchers found an antibody that seems to play a role in people with better lung cancer prognoses, but turning it into a treatment could be difficult. By Gina Kolata Is there a way to use the body’s ...

Pancreatic cancer treatment relies on surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation, with surgery for non-metastatic, technically resectable tumors. Advances in chemotherapy, neoadjuvant approaches, and ...

I’M MINDY BASARA IN TODAY’S MEDICAL ALERT. RADIATION THERAPY IS A COMMON TREATMENT FOR CANCER. ABOUT HALF OF ALL CANCER PATIENTS WILL RECEIVE IT. ONE OF THE DOWNSIDES OF TRADITIONAL RADIATION IS THAT ...

Dr. Benjamin Jon Golas explains that surgery, chemotherapy and radiation form the foundation of curative-intent treatment for patients with pancreas cancer. Dr. Benjamin Jon Golas of Hackensack ...

Good news in the fight against cancer: Survival rates in the United States are improving, a new report shows. In the annual report from the American Cancer Society, out Jan. 13, findings showed 7 in ...

Jill Martin has just shared that she will undergo urgent surgery to repair the damage that radiation therapy for breast cancer has done to her skin. “Just when you think the fight is over, life ...

Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have led the first clinical trial in the world to show that cancer drug treatments can be safely and effectively personalized based ...

For years, scientists have puzzled over the paradoxical relationship between cancer and retinoids, the metabolites that animals and people produce when their bodies break down vitamin A. About 40 ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — As many as 8,000 women in the United States are living with a rare ovarian cancer that affects the young and keeps coming back, even after surgery and chemotherapy. Now, for the ...