Our bodies contain immune cells called macrophages. Normally, these cells attack and suppress bacteria and cancer cells.

Scientists have used DNA analysis to trace how a rare soft tissue cancer spread from one identical twin to her sister before ...

The spread of cancer from a primary tumor to another place in the body, called metastasis, remains one of the greatest ...

Non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is the most common type of cancer affecting the lungs. The diverse types of NSCLC are characterized by cancer cells that grow and spread in different ways. The three ...

Immature natural killer cells in donor cord blood can sabotage engineered immune cells before they even reach the tumour.

This study was co-led by Steven Blum, MD. Gary Reynolds, MD, PhD, Samuel Klempner, MD, and Alexandra-Chloé Villani, PhD, ...

Cancer immunotherapy can lose its punch when tumor-fighting T cells become exhausted, but researchers may have found a way to keep them going longer. Scientists at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer ...

A research team has developed an anticancer treatment platform that simultaneously targets cancer cells and the surrounding ...

Found in 70 percent of cancers, the gene is seen as a grand orchestrator but has been surprisingly difficult to stop.

A biophysics model describing how cancers spread within the human body could help researchers developing new cancer therapies ...

Cancer cells work together to source nutrients from their environment—a cooperative process that was previously overlooked by scientists but may be a promising target for treating cancer. "We ...

Cancer cells work together to source nutrients from their environment, researchers report. It’s a cooperative process that scientists previously overlooked but may be a promising target for treating ...