Utilizing the body’s natural born killers to take out blood cancers
Natural killer cells sound menacing, but they play a friendly role in keeping us healthy. And they might do much more in stopping...
Treatment puts the freeze on breast cancer
When Jo Ann West learned she had early-stage breast cancer, her doctor suggested an inventive new treatment that involves no major...
Drug shows promise in treating BRCA-related breast cancer
After all 13 breast cancer patients in a first-of-its-kind clinical trial responded positively to a new targeted therapy, MD Anderson...
Research shows HPV vaccine’s enormous potential to stop oral...
Researchers have found that the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine may reduce the rate of oral HPV infections in young adults by as...
A first-line therapy’s success in treating rare mantle cell...
Two new clinical trials at MD Anderson are taking aim at mantle cell lymphoma – a rare form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
Most mantle...
Leukemia doctor creates a clinical trial for patients ineligible...
What if you or a loved one had cancer but were denied access to a research study testing a poten-tially beneficial treatment?
This...
Is this enzyme the key to the formation of highly malignant brain...
There are many moving parts when it comes to the mechanics of how otherwise healthy cells are transformed into those that cause deadly...
Program helps at-risk group beat nicotine addiction
More than 50 years after the U.S. Surgeon General first warned about the dangers of cigarettes, smoking rates have plummeted.