Proteins key to unlocking cancer for US initiative the National Cancer Moonshot
The National Cancer Moonshot initiative needs to move beyond genomics to target the proteins that…
Browsing: Immunotherapy
Treating cancer with the help of someone else’s immune cells
A new step in cancer immunotherapy: researchers from the Netherlands Cancer Institute and University of…
Immunotherapy shows great promise
Stanley Riddell, M.D., oncologist and researcher at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, discusses the…
Landmark Lions project to provide genome sequencing to hundreds of Aussie kids with cancer
Hundreds of Australian children with high-risk cancer will have access to new genome sequencing technologies…
Unfair if rare: should the PBS change the way it lists cancer drugs?
By Ian Olver, University of South Australia. The Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) spends over A$9 billion…
Why ‘sharks get cancer, mole rats don’t’
A provocative new book by radiation oncologist James S. Welsh, Sharks Get Cancer, Mole Rats Don’t:…
93 percent of advanced leukaemia patients in remission after immunotherapy
‘Extraordinary’ but short-term results from early-stage trial of engineered immune cells Twenty-seven of 29 patients…
Cell death mechanism may – paradoxically – enable aggressive pancreatic cells to live on
The most aggressive form of pancreatic cancer – often described as one of the hardest…
First computer program developed to detect DNA mutations in single cancer cells
Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have announced a new method…
$250 million, 300 scientists and 40 labs: Sean Parker’s revolutionary project to ‘solve’ cancer
By Ariana Eunjung Cha – The Washington Post. Millionaire Sean Parker, famous for his founding roles at…