OHSU leadership on stage at AACR
Dozens of OHSU Knight Cancer Institute researchers commanded the spotlight at the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida. Lisa Coussens, Ph.D., who concluded...
Tag: immune system
Sustained results with a CAR T-cell therapy for an aggressive blood cancer
When chemotherapy stops working and stem-cell transplantation fails or is not an option, medicine has little to offer patients with the aggressive blood cancer called diffuse large B-cell lymphoma,...
A potential way to reduce the risk of postpartum breast cancers
Breast cancers that emerge in young women within a few years after pregnancy are strikingly more dangerous. A new study suggests that the common pain reliever ibuprofen might work as a preventive...
Study explains a tumor enabling role of the immune system – and suggests a new treatment approach
OHSU researchers led by Lisa M. Coussens, Ph.D., have revealed a novel mechanism underlying how cancer cells co-opt complement proteins of the immune system to promote tumor growth. And the...
A new way to guide cancer immune therapy
Scrutinizing the immune cells infiltrating a tumor may reveal the cancer's vulnerability or resistance to immune-based therapies. Cancer immune therapies have delivered life-saving, long-lasting...