Subcutaneous immunotherapy injections work the same way as their intravenous counterparts — by changing or enhancing a person’s immune responses to cancer. Immunotherapy for cancer is a broad category ...

Tumours have developed many strategies and tricks to gain advantages in the body. Led by cell biology professor Sabine Werner, researchers at ETH Zurich have now discovered another surprising trick ...

In A Nutshell Starting aspirin after age 70 did not prevent cancer in a study of nearly 20,000 older adults followed for ...

Scientists have discovered that breast cancer can quietly throw the brain’s internal clock off balance—almost immediately after cancer begins. In mice, tumors flattened the natural daily rhythm of ...

Breast cancer treatments like surgery, radiation therapy and chemo put a lot of demands on your body. Treatments and their side effects can affect the way you eat and how your body tolerates certain ...

Immunofluorescence microscopy images display dendritic cells in two distinct states. The left panel shows a dendritic cell in its naïve, unactivated form. The right panel presents a dendritic cell ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. Cancer: it’s a diagnosis that most of us have learned to fear. On the one hand decades ...