James Allison and Tasuku Honjo, cancer immunotherapy trailblazers, take home 2018 Nobel Prize in medicine
James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo won the 2018 Nobel Prize in in Medicine for a branch of medicine that calls on our immune systems to fight tumors.
African American women face a more aggressive type of endometrial cancer. Researchers can’t explain why
Endometrial cancer, a common form of uterine cancer, has an 80 percent rate of survival over a five-year period in most women diagnosed at age 60 and above. But African American women are more likely to have a more aggressive…
Doctors want to give their cancer patients every chance. But are they pushing off hard talks too long?
Experts say doctors who counsel immunotherapy and hold onto hopes for remission are postponing conversations about palliative care and end-of-life wishes.
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A study this week says scientists have devised a new approach that represents the blueprint for making immunotherapy available to treat common cancers, and may allow doctors to target what is unique about each person's cancer.
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