Researchers recently tried an experiment: Gather people who had the same kind of lung cancer and put them on the same type of treatments to fire up their immune systems. The only difference was that ...

How Does Libtayo Work for Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)? Libtayo is a specific kind of medicine called immunotherapy. Immunotherapies work by helping your body’s own immune system work to fight ...

Subcutaneous immunotherapy injections work the same way as their intravenous counterparts — by changing or enhancing a person’s immune responses to cancer. Immunotherapy for cancer is a broad category ...

DNA repair proteins act like the body's editors, constantly finding and reversing damage to our genetic code. Researchers have long struggled to understand how cancer cells hijack one of these ...

How Does Verzenio Work for Metastatic Breast Cancer? Verzenio is a type of medicine called a kinase inhibitor. Kinases are enzymes in the body that can send and receive signals to help your cells do ...

Chemotherapy for lung cancer is used for different purposes depending on the type and stage of cancer you have. This includes achieving cancer remission, shrinking a tumor before surgery, killing ...

The American Cancer Society estimates there were 2,041,910 new cancer diagnoses and 618,120 cancer deaths in the U.S. alone in 2025. These numbers show why speed matters so much in cancer research.

Researchers across MSK continued to make strides against cancer in 2025 and to illuminate fundamental human biology. Here, research associate Dr. Binglong Zhang of the Eric Lai Lab works on a research ...

At first glance, dinosaur fossils and modern cancer research may seem worlds apart. But a new study suggests that soft tissue preserved for millions of years inside ancient bones could offer valuable ...