Knight Cancer signal achievements of 2022
People at the Knight Cancer Institute accomplished a lot in 2022. Through innovative, collaborative research and education, the institute delivers cancer prevention, detection, and care — one...
Tag: immune microenvironment
Taking a systems approach to beating cancer
Diversity and adaptability make cancer hard to beat. To survive, tumors find many ways to cooperate with immune and other host cells, and tumors avidly split into sub-populations of cancer cells with...
Sex hormones limit cancer immunotherapy success
Scientists have discovered how the sex hormone androgen, most commonly testosterone in men, can limit the body’s response to cancer immunotherapy, a finding that may help make those therapies more...
Discovery sheds light on early-onset colorectal cancer
The rapid rise of colorectal cancer in younger people remains perplexing, but a new study fills in a missing piece of the puzzle. Researchers found that three genes involved in immunity and...