Scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have identified an important immune response that helps explain why ...

Pancreatic cancer uses a sugar-coated disguise to evade the immune system, helping explain why it’s so hard to treat.

Scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have identified an important immune response that helps explain why ...

The Cancer Research Institute launches a first-of-its-kind open-access database to help scientists better understand how the immune system responds to cancer treatments over time. The collaborative ...

More than two-thirds of deaths from ovarian cancer are attributable to high-grade serous carcinoma. In one particularly aggressive form, only a small number of inactive immune cells can be found near ...

Researchers have developed a new class of antibodies that amplify the immune system’s ability to fight cancer. By clustering immune receptors that normally receive weak signals from tumors, these four ...

Many childhood cancer survivors do not receive essential follow-up care, and researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of ...

New research suggests that a breast cancer vaccine developed decades ago may have triggered a lasting immune memory response that can now be significantly boosted by a newly developed antibody.

Cancer cells can change and become resistant to treatments, making cancer hard to cure completely. Some cancers can be considered curable if they are found early, like stage 0 cancers. Research is ...

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