Among patients with advanced melanoma, long-term data have shown that a personalized mRNA cancer vaccine, when combined with the immunotherapy Keytruda (pembrolizumab), has been associated with a 49% ...

Subcutaneous immunotherapy injections work the same way as their intravenous counterparts — by changing or enhancing a person’s immune responses to cancer. Immunotherapy for cancer is a broad category ...

Scientists have discovered that breast cancer can quietly throw the brain’s internal clock off balance—almost immediately after cancer begins. In mice, tumors flattened the natural daily rhythm of ...

Tumours have developed many strategies and tricks to gain advantages in the body. Led by cell biology professor Sabine Werner, researchers at ETH Zurich have now discovered another surprising trick ...

A research team is shedding new light on Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG), a decades-old bladder cancer treatment, which is also given as vaccine against tuberculosis. The findings could help improve ...

Immunofluorescence microscopy images display dendritic cells in two distinct states. The left panel shows a dendritic cell in its naïve, unactivated form. The right panel presents a dendritic cell ...

Breast cancer treatments like surgery, radiation therapy and chemo put a lot of demands on your body. Treatments and their side effects can affect the way you eat and how your body tolerates certain ...