When most people think of a vaccine, they think of the prevention of a disease. For pancreatic cancer vaccines, though, it’s a little bit different. The vaccines don’t entirely prevent the disease, but they can help prevent it from coming back once someone has been diagnosed and treated.

“People think, ‘I’ve had the cancer removed, I’m cured,’ but even when people have no evidence of disease and have had chemotherapy, the cancer...

Leukemia treatments have been constantly improving from the days when patients had to come to the hospital or clinic for intravenous doses of chemotherapy that caused unwanted side effects. Now, leukemia treatment often can be as convenient as a medication taken at home — a pill (or pills) with drugs highly customized to the person’s type of leukemia and even the genetic mutations present within those individual’s cancer cells.