chemotherapy, disease & medicine

The newly minted Baylor College of Medicine faculty member is working to crack the mystery of triple negative breast cancer.

A cancer patient who underwent the new fertility preservation procedure successfully gave birth five years after her immature eggs were collected.

Three-dimensional tissue cultures grown from cancer patients’ own tumors can predict responses to the drug irinotecan.

Researchers have developed a prototype device to filter excess chemotherapy medication from the bloodstream.

Mustard gas blistered men’s bodies on the battlefield, but paved the way for cancer-fighting drugs.

The vesicles promote metastasis after chemotherapy, but the authors say the results shouldn’t alarm patients and may point to ways to improve treatments.

Targeting the transient group of cells could prevent recurrence of the disease.

Checkpoint inhibition combined with chemotherapy gives patients with triple-negative metastatic breast cancer about two months more time without significant tumor growth, a study finds.