Blood cancer is an umbrella term for a variety of diseases that affect the blood, bone marrow and lymphatic system. Like most ...

Alyssa Tapley, 16, thought she was going to die of leukaemia before receiving the treatment A therapy that would once have ...

Within tumors in the human body, there are immune cells (macrophages) capable of fighting cancer, but they have been unable ...

CHICAGO — A big breakthrough in cancer research and it’s all due to a tiny structure. The science was developed in Chicago. They took an old drug and made it better. The restructured drug appears to ...

The immune system provides constant surveillance for the body, aiming to spot and eliminate disease-causing microbes or ...

Scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have revealed previously unappreciated roles for the retrotransposon LINE-1 in shaping the cancer genome structure and regulation.

CAR T-cell therapy, which transforms patients’ own immune cells into cancer-fighting warriors, has revolutionized how physicians treat cancer, especially blood cancers. “These patients can be cured ...

The annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology drew more than 30,000 attendees to San Diego, and more who participated in the conference virtually, all of them looking to see and hear ...

SAN ANTONIO – Thanks to efforts from doctors, researchers, health care providers and nonprofits such as Blood Cancer United, certain types of blood cancers are no longer the terminal diagnoses that ...