Immunotherapy has emerged in recent years as a new cancer treatment that is gentler than traditional chemotherapy and causes ...

Silica nanomaterial cuts immunotherapy costs while boosting cancer treatment efficacy by nearly 70% in animal studies.

The gut microbiome has been shown to influence tumor growth and contribute to therapeutic resistance. Scientists have ...

A new method for engineering natural killer cells could make cancer immunotherapy more efficient, scalable, and affordable, ...

Bile duct cancer, or cholangiocarcinoma, begins when cancerous cells grow and spread within the bile ducts. Some people with this cancer may benefit from a treatment known as immunotherapy. The bile ...

Cleveland Clinic researchers have discovered that bacteria inside cancerous tumors may be key to understanding why ...

What if the cells that cancer affects could be trained to fight back? This is the core of cellular immunotherapy at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center. Cells are taken from your body and multiplied in a ...

Could immunotherapy, a type of cancer treatment that uses your body’s own immune system to fight tumors, help people with mesothelioma? Early research shows benefits for this hard-to-treat form of ...

Immunotherapy and chemotherapy are common cancer treatments. Both use drugs to stop the cancer from growing, but they achieve this in different ways. Immunotherapy enhances the immune system so it can ...

Medically reviewed by Corinne Savides Happel, MD Key Takeaways Allergy immunotherapy works by gradually exposing the immune ...