Prostate cancer develops resistance. Treatments work for years, then stop working. Patients who responded well to therapy suddenly face a disease that ignores their medication. Doctors watch helplessly as cancer spreads and becomes lethal in 10 to 20 percent of cases within five years. But researchers at Sanford Burnham Prebys may have found a way …
The syringe contained no poison to kill cancer cells, no radioactive particles to burn through tissue, no harsh chemicals to ravage a patient’s body. Instead, it held something far more revolutionary: a set of molecular instructions that would transform a 67-year-old scientist’s immune system into a personalized cancer-hunting army. Janusz Racz didn’t know it as …
Something in the human brain can go wrong in ways that modern medicine still cannot fix. Every year, more than 14,000 Americans learn they have glioblastoma, a cancer so aggressive and so resistant to treatment that most patients survive barely more than a year after diagnosis. Surgery can remove parts of it, but the cancer …