Cancer

Biobanks preserve our body's knowledge so it can pay dividends in the future.   Since antiquity physicians have analyzed patient specimens to diagnose ...

Blood cancer specialist Sikander Ailawadhi, M.D., was working in a county hospital in California several years ago when he became aware of a trend in ...

A Mayo Clinic Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences student combines immunology and nanotechnology to pursue treatments for brain cancer and stroke. [caption id="attachment_3094" align="alignright" ...

What makes some brain cancers so hard to treat? Researchers in the laboratory of Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa, M.D., Chair of ...

At the age of 10, Ruth Lupu, Ph.D., told her father she’d cure cancer. “I probably didn’t know what cancer was,” laughs Dr. ...

“Not a lot,” says Mayo Clinic’s Matthew Carlson, M.D., an ear, nose and throat doctor (otorhinolaryngologist) and ear surgeon in Rochester, Minnesota. That’s why he ...

Measles has long been our enemy but with modification it transforms into a weapon against ovarian cancer. Rene Maleski knew it was bad news when the ...

One challenge in treating pancreatic cancer is getting chemotherapy to reach the tumor cells. That’s because the tumors are surrounded by a forbidding microenvironment, a ...

Immunotherapy offers new drugs and drug delivery to help the body's "janitor" with its job. The response of the immune system to cancer is ...

Thanks to the generosity of patients participating in research, benefactor funding, and the dedication of Mayo researchers, people managing primary sclerosing cholangitis in the present ...