You may have heard the term theranostics when reading about cancer treatments, but what does it mean? The word theranostics is a combination of the words “therapy” and “diagnostics,” and theranostics does just that. It uses radioisotopes to first image a patient’s tumor for diagnostics and then therapeutically treat that tumor.
We spoke with Charles Manning, Ph.D., a cancer systems imaging researcher, to learn more about how theranostics...
Immunotherapy is a cancer treatment that uses a patient’s immune system to target their cancer cells. Some common types of immunotherapies...
Lung cancer is the third-most common type of cancer and the most common cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States, according to...
Leukemia is an overarching term encompassing several subtypes of blood cancers. Blood cells are produced in the bone marrow, the spongy material inside bones. The bone marrow contains immature stem cells that develop and mature to become red blood cells, platelets, or different types of white blood cells.
When mutations occur in bone marrow stem cells, it can interfere with the body’s normal production of blood cells. This can...
PARP inhibitors are a type of targeted therapy commonly used to treat breast cancer and ovarian cancer, among others. They target PARP, or...