Cancer

Pancreatic cancer is considered one of the hardest to treat and most serious forms of cancer

The combined drug works by nudging the body’s own immune system to make proteins that attack and destroy melanoma cells

Several children who had aggressive recurrent brain tumors remained disease-free years after this treatment, according to an early-stage trial

Everyday viral infections may be quietly reshaping the body’s network of molecules that support cells and tissues in ways that can raise cancer risk over time

The Trump administration is mulling new rules that would give political appointees final say on research grants

Learning how the matrix around cells and tissues impacts cancers

Developing software to reveal large genetic changes that lead to cancer

The Pfizer executive talks about rekindling the public’s excitement over science

Dermatologists and skincare aficionados are excited for the U.S. to finally get a new, more protective sunscreen filter after more than 20 years of regulatory roadblocks. Here’s how bemotrizinol works

A new wave of research links GLP-1 drugs to reduced cancer spread and better survival, and the mechanism may go beyond just weight loss

AI analysis of mammograms could provide a “bonus finding” for heart disease

Unprecedented results against a stubbornly hard-to-treat cancer are boosting optimism that other challenging tumors will be next