An emerging class of anticancer drugs called EZH2 inhibitors may greatly enhance the potency of some cancer immunotherapies. An emerging class of anticancer drugs called EZH2 inhibitors may greatly ...

For decades, cancer patients have been told that shrinking tumors meant accepting brutal side effects as the price of ...

Researchers shrink gastrointestinal tumors in mice using a yeast probiotic to deliver immunotherapy to the gut, offering a potentially novel strategy to target hard-to-reach gut cancers. Immunotherapy ...

Scientists have discovered a promising new approach to fighting cancer in the gut bacteria of a Japanese tree frog, with one ...

Scientists at UC San Francisco and at Gladstone Institutes have identified a combination of two anticancer drugs that the researchers suggest may reverse the changes that occur in the brain during ...

Pamela Goodwin has received hundreds of emails from patients asking if they should take a cheap, readily available drug, metformin, to treat their cancer. It’s a fair question: Metformin, commonly ...

Fungi have produced many of the important drugs we now take for granted. The first antibiotic, penicillin, was discovered in fungi and so were the first statins. But fungi are still an underexplored ...

Vital chemotherapy drugs used around the world have failed quality tests, putting cancer patients in more than 100 countries at risk of ineffective treatments and potentially fatal side effects, an ...

You see PET plastics every day, even if you do not notice them. They show up as drink bottles, food packaging, and synthetic ...

Injections and infusions are a common way to receive chemotherapy. Both methods deliver cancer-treating medications directly into the bloodstream. Chemotherapy is a common cancer treatment that uses ...