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...
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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...
These prostate cancer researchers are using gut bacteria to fight tumors
Cancer researchers at OHSU have been awarded $1 million to test the idea that adjusting the diversity of bacteria inhabiting the intestines could make aggressive prostate cancers more responsive to...