CHICAGO — A big breakthrough in cancer research and it’s all due to a tiny structure. The science was developed in Chicago. They took an old drug and made it better. The restructured drug appears to ...

As cancer progresses in an organ, tumour cells increasingly leak into the bloodstream, from where they drive the spread of cancer to other tissues. While these cells pose a deadly threat, they also ...

Stem cell transplants that are a standard treatment for certain blood cancers are out of reach for many patients. The procedure requires cells from a matched donor, but a match isn’t always available.

An enduring challenge for the study of human cancer is just how complex it is: how many different ways there are for cancers to originate, progress, and spread in the people who are diagnosed with ...

Of all the types of breast cancer, triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is the most aggressive and lacks specific therapies.

A therapy that would once have been considered a feat of science fiction has reversed aggressive and incurable blood cancers in some patients, doctors report. The treatment involves precisely editing ...

CAR T-cell therapy, which transforms patients’ own immune cells into cancer-fighting warriors, has revolutionized how physicians treat cancer, especially blood cancers. “These patients can be cured ...

An implantable scaffold and magnetic probes capture circulating tumor cells directly in the bloodstream, eliminating over 90% ...

Scientists at KAIST have found a way to turn a tumor’s own immune cells into powerful cancer fighters—right inside the body.