Until now, chemo and radiation therapy have been main cancer treatments but they can also damage healthy tissues. Immunotherapy uses the body’s immune system to fight cancer with minimal harm
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There is no one-size-fits-all approach to treating cancer. Understanding how cancer cells evolve could help researchers develop more effective drugs.
Preventive and therapeutic vaccines both train the immune system to fight disease, but they are used in different ways.
Cancer mortality has dropped in the US, due largely to lower smoking rates, as well as early detection and better treatments. These advances often do not extend to people in developing nations.
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Associate Professor of Hematology and Oncology, Penn State
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Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University
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Professor and Chair of Biochemistry, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo
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Associate Professor of Pathology, Penn State
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Chief of Hematology/Oncology, Medical Director of the Cancer Center, and Eleanor Eustis Farrington Chair in Cancer Research, UMass Chan Medical School
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Associate Professor of Pathology, Penn State
