A common eye-health nutrient, zeaxanthin, may also help the body fight cancer more effectively. Scientists discovered it strengthens T cells and enhances the impact of immunotherapy treatments. Found ...

CAR-T cell therapy, originally developed for cancer, is showing ever more promise as a treatment for autoimmune diseases.

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Finding an effective treatment for osteosarcoma, the most common type of bone cancer in children and young adults, has puzzled medical researchers for 40 years. Now, a new study by researchers at Case ...

Mismatch repair–proficient (pMMR) or microsatellite stable (MSS) metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) remains largely refractory to immunotherapy due to its intrinsically immunologically cold tumor ...

A team of researchers at VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center has identified a new pathway through which mutations in the tumor suppressor p53 gene—found very frequently in human tumors—hijack DNA ...

A popular fruit holds compounds that might slow the growth of aggressive breast cancer, according to new research. The findings focus on dark sweet cherries. Researchers focused on the effects of ...

**Study includes country-level data for 204 countries and territories worldwide, see summary tables at end of release** Breast cancer continues to be the leading cause of cancer-related illness and ...

Despite recent advancements in breast cancer treatments, new breast cancer cases in women are predicted to rise by a third globally from 2.3 million in 2023 to more than 3.5 million in 2050. Similarly ...

It isn’t clear what’s driving the shift, but scientists suspect that environmental exposures may be partially to blame. By Nina Agrawal Nearly half of all new colorectal cancer cases now occur in ...