The cancer kept coming back

His life was blasted apart by a rare but vicious type of cancer. Could an experimental treatment help? When Derek Fadness woke up, the room was dark and his face was swaddled in bandages. He could...

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...

How to make more cancers vulnerable to immunotherapies

Cancer immunotherapies called checkpoint inhibitors can bring dramatic, life-saving results – but only for a limited fraction of patients. Aiming to help more patients benefit, researchers in...

Advancing immunotherapy for life-threatening prostate cancer

Restoring tumor-specific immunity is a treatment strategy that has worked well, but only against some cancers. Research led by OHSU oncologist Julie Graff, M.D., revived hope that the approach may...

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...