The idea sounds almost poetic. The body, designed to protect itself, turns its own defence system against cancer. For decades, this felt like a far-fetched goal. Today, it is part of real treatment ...

Immunotherapy Cancer Treatment: Cancer is a common disease these days. Many types of therapies are used to treat it. Meanwhile, immunotherapy has emerged as a new hope in cancer treatment. Instead of ...

Creatine is best known as a popular supplement used by athletes and bodybuilders to improve strength and performance. Now, ...

Immunotherapy is a class of medical treatments that harness, enhance, or redirect the body's immune system to fight disease. In its most prominent application – cancer treatment – immunotherapy works ...

In a paper published in Cell, a USC Stem Cell-led team reports a new way of generating a renewable and expandable supply of ...

Creatine, the organic acid that is popularly taken as a supplement by athletes and bodybuilders, supercharges a critical class of immune cells that activate and prepare the body’s key cancer-fighters, ...

Drs. Andy Minn, left, and Michael Glickman co-direct the Marie-Josée Kravis Center for Cancer Immunobiology — a hub for immunotherapy research at MSK. At any given moment, the human immune system is ...

Researchers recently tried an experiment: Gather people who had the same kind of lung cancer and put them on the same type of treatments to fire up their immune systems. The only difference was that ...

Every year, June marks Cancer Immunotherapy Awareness Month — a global effort to increase public understanding of one of the ...

Physician-scientist Theodore Scott Nowicki, MD, PhD, an assistant professor in the department of pediatrics hematology/oncology and microbiology, immunology, & molecular genetics at the David Geffen ...

One person's waste could be another's shot at fighting cancer. The idea may sound far-fetched, but it is gaining momentum in cancer care. Researchers are testing fecal microbiota transplants as a way ...

As we observe National Cancer Survivors Month, we delve into an exciting new era in the battle against cancer recurrence: the ...