Georgetown University's Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers have identified a new way to reprogram T cells, ...

Researchers have unlocked a way to grow the immune system’s “conductors” from stem cells, bringing ready-made cancer-fighting therapies a big step closer. For the first time, scientists at the Univers ...

Tracking how cancer cells develop in real time How these differences in the genome and in epigenetic control arise in cells, and how they are passed on to their daughter and granddaughter cells, has ...

Your dermatologist or oncologist may have told you what type of advanced squamous cell carcinoma you have. Here’s what each type means: Locally advanced squamous cell carcinoma: This means cancer has ...

The immune system provides constant surveillance for the body, aiming to spot and eliminate disease-causing microbes or ...

Cancer cells respond to stress with greater diversity. Drugs that affect DNA replication, or radiation that causes direct DNA damage, lead to increasingly diverse offspring over multiple cell ...

Cancer’s cruelest trick is its ability to disappear, only to reappear years later in a new organ or a familiar scar. The fear ...

Scientists have presented a new approach to cancer treatment using mast cells, which are immune cells known for their ability ...

We currently know that COPD, and specifically emphysema, is not just a lung disease found alongside lung cancer; it increases ...