A woman receiving an IV at the hospital. This article is part of an ongoing series on novel cancer advances, including immunotherapies such as CAR T therapy and checkpoint inhibitors. Future ...

According to a Phase I study led by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, published in Nature ...

Checkpoint inhibitors are antibody-based cancer therapies that unlock the immune system’s natural ability to fight cancer. These treatments work by blocking special proteins called immune checkpoints, ...

One of the best ways to defeat cancer is by rousing the immune system to attack it. Experts have thought that immune cells had to be inside of tumors for one type of immunotherapy, known as checkpoint ...

Cancer cells employ a variety of strategies to evade the immune system, and modern immunotherapies aim precisely at these ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . WASHINGTON — Preexisting autoimmune diseases do not increase mortality risk in patients treated with immune ...

About 130 years ago, American physician William Coley injected a terminally ill cancer patient with a lethal cocktail of ...

Cancer cells employ a variety of strategies to evade the immune system, and modern immunotherapies aim precisely at these ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Adding immune checkpoint inhibitors to neoadjuvant chemotherapy benefited certain patients with early-stage ...

Cancer researchers have chased the idea of a universal cancer vaccine for decades. The promise sounds bold and almost impossible at first. One platform would help the immune system recognize many ...

Patients with cancer who receive immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have more than twice the risk for developing psoriasis compared with those who receive other treatments. Researchers conducted a ...

Simple blood markers may predict nivolumab outcomes in metastatic renal cell carcinoma. Learn how eosinophils could help ...