For many people diagnosed with cancer, treatment with immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) has dramatically extended lives.
Researchers at the Ribeirão Preto Blood Center and the Center for Cell-Based Therapy (CTC) conducted a study using the NK-92 cell line to test new models of chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) with ...
Therapeutic vaccines are advancing in oncology and HIV, with the aim of retraining immune responses to target tumors and persistent viral reservoirs with precision.
Neutrophils are everywhere in the bloodstream and are built for speed, rushing to sites of injury or infection to contain ...
The so-called guards are tumor macrophages. Under normal conditions, macrophages serve as first responders, helping fight infections and repair tissue damage. Inside tumors, however, these cells are ...
Researchers say an immunotherapy they used represents a significant step forward and could lead to new treatment options, even for other forms of cancer ...
A research team investigating the use of the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes against colorectal cancer has discovered a way to build a modified version of Listeria as an oral vaccine to prime the ...
Predicting tumor progression is one of the major challenges in oncology. Scientists at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research have discovered that neutrophils, a ...
Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers among American women. It is estimated that within the United States, about 300,000 new cases will be diagnosed in 2025. The average risk of a woman ...
After months of shrinking scans, the tumors suddenly came roaring back. Oncologists have seen this pattern for years in patients on immunotherapy and targeted drugs: a dramatic initial response, then ...