Anticancer Therapies – News and Features

New research explains why metastatic uveal melanoma is resistant to conventional immunotherapies and how adoptive therapy can successfully treat this rare and aggressive cancer.

Women with triple-negative breast cancer and high levels of immune cells in the tumor have a lower risk of relapse after surgery, even without chemotherapy.

For the first time in fifty years, results from a phase 3 randomized, placebo-controlled trial have shown an overall survival benefit from an adjuvant therapy in patients with kidney cancer.

Researchers have discovered that tetracycline antibiotics help the immune system to find cancer cells in a way that is different from current immunotherapies.

3D-printed films loaded with drugs could be used to kill cancer cells while minimizing the toxicity of traditional chemotherapy.

A drug used to treat children with epilepsy prevents brain tumor formation and growth in two mouse models of neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), according to a study by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

Here, we highlight some of the latest advancements in vitamin A research working to address its effects on human health.

A study has shown that metformin, a type 2 diabetes drug, may help the immune system to better identify cancer cells and boost the immune response against them.

New research has revealed how DNA gyrase resolves DNA entanglements – by getting lassoed by the supercoiled DNA.

Today, Logan Jenner is a healthy, happy 8-year-old who jumps tirelessly on his trampoline, dreams of visiting Hawaii and plans to tackle every sport imaginable. Once, he was Patient 13: a case of relapsed acute myeloid leukemia.