But in fact, research on personalized cancer vaccines, designed to help the immune system recognize and attack tumors, has been underway for at least a decade. Scientists have reported promising ...

The Art for Recovery program at University of California San Francisco (UCSF) gives cancer patients and survivors a safe place to express the intense, complicated emotions that accompany a ...

“There are enough reports of it, enough interest in it, that we actually did — ivermectin, in particular — did engage in sort of a better preclinical study of its properties and its ability to kill ...

The study adds to existing evidence suggesting that scheduling cancer treatment according to a person’s natural circadian rhythm may lead to maximum effectiveness and minimal toxicity due to factors ...

Luckily, a vast range of skilled and dedicated patient advocates can provide support to people with cancer and their loved ones. They raise funds and awareness, build programs and communities, share ...

“Personalized, risk-based screening is critical to improving breast cancer outcomes, and AI tools offer us the best opportunity to fulfill that potential,” said Robert Smith, PhD, senior vice ...

All rectal cancer patients with a specific genetic mutation had a complete response to the checkpoint inhibitor, and some were still in remission four years later.

Our fourth annual Cancer Health 25 honors individuals working tirelessly to define and address such disparities. They include doctors, nurses, researchers, volunteers, patient navigators, grassroots ...

Rewind to 2013 Back in 2013, Wreford Ledlow was following a different life plan. She had been a musical theater star until injuries led her to hang up her dance shoes. Based in Los Angeles, she ran a ...

Jennifer Ligibel, MD, a medical oncologist specializing in breast cancer at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston who coauthored the ASCO guideline, was surprised by the research gaps. “It was ...

In Dark Waters, Ruffalo portrays the real-life corporate lawyer Robert Bilott, who in 1998 became an environmental crusader. That year, while visiting his grandmother in West Virgina, Bilott, who ...

Christine Spencer, PhD, of the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, McQuade and colleagues showed that melanoma patients responded better to checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapy if they ate a diet ...