Cancer

Charlotte Brown first discovered her passion for medicine through books. "I've always been a voracious reader. As a child, I dreamt of becoming a neurosurgeon [...]

Vaccines have protected people from deadly diseases for generations. Could they also help fight cancer?   Mayo Clinic researchers are working to develop personalized therapeutic cancer vaccines [...]

Researchers have long recognized cancer is not a single disease. Rather, the term encompasses hundreds of different diseases — all with one common characteristic: [...]

The tools of molecular medicine are designed to work in remote regions of inner space — places in the body that aren't easy to see [...]

In March 2020, at the start of the pandemic, Anya Magnuson's own health was in crisis. The 21-year-old Minnesotan had already endured four brain surgeries, [...]

For the millions of people who could face a cancer diagnosis this year, it's vital to have all therapeutic options available. [...]

Like the maps that drivers use to get from one place to another, the goal of a medical diagnosis is to get you from where [...]

Why does it take so long for new biomedical evidence to become accepted as standard practice in medicine? For example, in a

Tumors must evade the immune system to grow and spread, causing cancer. One of the ways tumor cells hide is by displaying proteins that tell [...]

Physicians who treat patients with cancer of the central nervous system got some new information that may help their patients with lymphoma. The findings were [...]