A newly discovered cancer trick that weakens immunotherapy may be stopped by everyday statins.

Immunotherapy is a type of cancer treatment that uses the power of a person’s immune system to fight their cancer. Instead of directly attacking cancer cells like chemotherapy or radiation, ...

Immunotherapy has been generally ineffective for prostate cancer because the tumors are considered immunologically "cold," meaning they do not attract enough immune cells to mount a strong attack.

Immunotherapies use the power of your immune system to fight your cancer. Vaccines are one form of immunotherapy. Sipuleucel-T is a vaccine used for advanced, metastatic prostate cancer if: It no ...

New research has shown that immunotherapy can be effective in treating prostate cancer in men who are selected based on the genetic characteristics of their tumors. In a recent study, it was found ...

Treatment for lung cancer has changed significantly with immunotherapy, an expert said during the CURE® Educated Patient® Lung Cancer Summit. For patients with advanced-stage non-small cell lung ...

Immunotherapy may help shrink a tumor or slow the growth of cancer cells. People may have it in combination with other treatments for stomach cancer. Immunotherapy is a treatment that helps the immune ...

Immunotherapy—which activates the body's own immune system to kill cancer cells—has not worked well against a rare and fatal liver cancer, but a new study finds an existing FDA-approved drug may allow ...

Jonathan Fisher works for University College London and is an inventor on patents pertaining to gamma-delta T cell immunotherapy. In the past 5 years he has received research funding from UKRI, the ...

Chemotherapy has fallen out of favor for treating cancer toward the end of life. The toxicity is too high, and the benefit, if any, is often too low. This means "there are patients who are getting ...