T cells are supposed to be relentless. These white blood cells patrol the body, identify threats, and destroy them.

Spencer Laird was diagnosed with colon cancer at 26. At 30, he was told it had returned and spread to his lungs, with one tumor the size of a golf ball.

A redesigned cancer immunotherapy is showing striking early results after decades of disappointment with similar drugs. Researchers engineered a more powerful CD40 agonist antibody and changed how ...

An experimental immunotherapy drug called VIR-5500 has driven prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels down by as much as 99% in some men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, according ...

According to the results of the early study, published simultaneously in the New England Journal of Medicine, 92% of patients who received only an immune-based treatment to help their own immune ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers at Keck Medicine of USC launched the first clinical trial to evaluate the feasibility of at-home, ...

Immunotherapy is a cancer treatment that harnesses the body’s immune system to fight cancer. It helps the immune system recognize and attack cancer cells, which can sometimes be hidden from the body’s ...

Immunotherapies use the power of your immune system to fight your cancer. Vaccines are one form of immunotherapy. Sipuleucel-T is a vaccine used for advanced, metastatic prostate cancer if: It no ...

Early reports from a recent study suggest that when it comes to a common cancer treatment, appointment timing may in fact be a very big deal. At a June meeting of the American Society of Clinical ...

CHICAGO ― The data are preliminary, but the results are striking, demonstrating that an immunotherapy approach using adoptive T-cell therapy may have a role in the treatment of advanced cervical ...

People often get immunotherapy as a treatment for cancer. These immunotherapy treatments can be effective, but they may cause your immune system to have an unnatural response. Your body, as a result ...