Dr. Jennifer Amengual explains how epigenetic therapies treat lymphomas by changing gene expression rather than killing dividing cells like chemotherapy. Epigenetic therapies are offering a more ...

As tumors outgrow their blood and nutrient supplies, or respond to treatments like chemotherapy and radiotherapy, individual cancer cells die, exposing their internal scaffolds. These dead cells are ...

Chemotherapy is a treatment that uses drugs that kill rapidly dividing cancer cells to prevent them from growing and making more cells. Many chemotherapy drugs have adverse effects that can be severe.

Cancer treatment is undergoing a quiet but powerful transformation. For decades, chemotherapy has been the mainstay of cancer care. Today, newer approaches like immunotherapy are changing not just how ...

Chemotherapy uses medicines to kill fast-growing cells (like cancer cells) or to keep them from dividing (which is how cancers grow). It is usually a systemic treatment. This means the medicine will ...