Scientists are working on a personalized vaccine that researchers say could help extend the lives of people with certain ...

Pancreatic cancer remains one of the most difficult cancers to treat, with many patients facing a high risk of recurrence ...

A surprising backup system in the immune response to mRNA vaccines may hold the key to more effective cancer treatments.

For the first time, we’re hearing directly from one of the few women in the country who received that vaccine as part of a ...

Donna Gustafson had a harder time than usual shaking off the jet lag from her 22-hour journey from Florida to Australia. Two days into her trip, her skin took on the yellow hue of jaundice. Subscribe ...

The mRNA-based Covid vaccines helped blunt the impact of the pandemic but also sparked political backlash that has threatened to slow or derail dozens of potential cancer treatments. Now there are ...

Scientists are making rapid progress toward a long-awaited goal that could help to reshape cancer care: mRNA cancer vaccines with the potential to significantly boost the immune system’s ability to ...

Our fraught national debate over immunization and public health has overshadowed some extremely encouraging advances being made by researchers in the decades-long battle against cancer. Recent news of ...

Torie Bosch is the First Opinion editor at STAT. First Opinion is STAT’s platform for interesting, illuminating, and provocative articles about the life sciences writ large, written by biotech ...

Vaccines for treating and preventing cancer have long been considered a holy grail in oncology. But aside from a few notable exceptions — including the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, which has ...

Pancreatic cancer is notoriously lethal. But new treatments mean that may be changing, and people with the disease now have ...