by Natalie Young | Mar 6, 2019 | Cancer
An estimated 15 to 20 percent of all breast cancer patients are “triple negative.” These unfortunate women lack three crucial treatment targets — the estrogen receptor, the progesterone receptor and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2. Because they...
by Natalie Young | Feb 6, 2019 | Cancer
Cancer immunotherapy—an approach that removes the barriers that protect cancer cells from a patient’s immune system—has revolutionized the treatment of many cancer types. About 40 percent of melanoma patients, for example, respond to immunotherapy, enabling the immune...