Vaccines against various forms of cancer prime the immune system to attack.

Surveillance Gaps: How Cancer Arises

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.

A prototype in-vein device would collect toxic medications before they reach healthy tissues.

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.

Mice with cancer whose KRAS proteins couldn’t link together had much better survival outcomes than those whose oncogenic mutant paired with wild-type KRAS.

William Halsted’s approach to mastectomy took the medical world by storm at the turn of the last century.

Multidrug combinations lead to better results for cancer patients, but efficiently identifying them is proving difficult.

The immunotherapy, which targets CD22 on cancer cells rather than CD19, might prove useful in patients for whom previous T-cell treatments were unsuccessful. 

Zebrafish larvae transplanted with patients’ tumors respond as their human donors do to chemotherapy.

A new report summarizes what we know about the impacts of marijuana use, as more states have legalized the drug for both medical and recreational purposes.

Vaccine-induced macrophages open a new realm of study into remodeling the immune system to reduce the risk of infections during cancer treatment.

The discovery of a tumor-protecting role for a fatty acid found in fish oil has sparked debate about the product’s safety.