Progress in preventing kidney cancer recurrence
Cancer “adjuvant” therapies are treatments designed to reduce the chances of tumors coming back after surgery. But for decades, attempts to find adjuvant treatments for kidney cancer failed to...
Tag: tumor atlas
Detecting tumor responses before they become deadly
Targeted cancer therapies can be stunningly effective at blocking specific, cancer-driving signals. But all too often, tumors develop resistance by switching to alternative signaling pathways to...
How scientists are mapping the cancer ecosystem to find cures
Cancer is more than just tumor cells driven by gene mutations. Cancer is like an ecosystem filled with evolving populations of tumor cells that interact with and enlist support from neighboring...