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This suggests that those CT scans actually appear to capture the immune response elicited by the tumours against the invasion of cancer. (Photo: ANI)

AI hits another milestone; to determine if lung patients benefit from...

Artificial Intelligence to determine whether immunotherapy is working.

25 Nov 2019 12:06 PM IST

Tackling pollen allergies this spring season

Tackling pollen allergies this spring season

Experts believe that pollen allergies will only worsen with global warming, as pollen seasons are bound to get longer...

20 April 2019 8:53 PM IST

Prof Justin Stebbing

Need for a decisive war against tobacco'

The professor also suggested that the government may also consider making health care awareness as part of school...

17 May 2018 6:34 AM IST

HIV excels at evading the immune system by hiding out in certain immune cells. (Photo: Pixabay)

Is a cure for HIV inching closer? Scientists discover new possibility

Team creates neutralising antibody, effective not only against all genetically divergent global HIV-1 strains, but also...

8 May 2018 1:28 PM IST

Doctors could be a step closer to finding the most effective way to treat cancer. (Photo: Pixabay)

New subtype of prostate cancer discovered

It could also explain why some prostate cancer patients have had exceptional responses to immunotherapy.

17 Jun 2018 6:29 PM IST

About 65 percent of women with hormone-positive disease and a positive blood test did not have a new breast cancer within two years (Photo: AFP)

Woman cured of advanced breast cancer through immunotherapy in world...

Treatment already works in some people with cancer of the lung, cervix, blood cells (leukaemia), skin (melanoma) and...

5 Jun 2018 8:16 AM IST

Doctors could be a step closer to finding the most effective way to treat cancer. (Photo: Pixabay)

Switching off protein may boost efficacy of cancer treatment: Study

Immunotherapy is a type of cancer treatment that boosts the body's natural defences to fight cancer.

1 Aug 2018 6:20 PM IST

Doctors could be a step closer to finding the most effective way to treat cancer. (Photo: Pixabay)

T cell behavior has major implications for cancer immunotherapy

Study found that critical white blood cells, which attack and kill the infection, did not rely on glucose to fuel their...

8 Sept 2018 5:10 PM IST

Immunotherapy proves to be a better treatment for cancer patients (Photo: Pixabay)

Cancer drug better than chemotherapy awaits funding

Despite success, drugs watchdog Nice has ruled the treatment as not cost effective.

26 Jun 2017 1:52 PM IST

The major problem hindering the successful treatment of commonly-occurring cancers is not the primary tumour, but its spread. (Photo: Pixabay)

This technique may predict cancer patients' ability to fight disease

The research is published in the journal Cancer Research.

12 Dec 2017 5:44 PM IST

Many patients lymphoma tumours melted away within a month. (Photo: Pixabay)

New immunotherapy to help fight cancer developed

A team led by an Indian-origin researcher has developed a novel cancer treatment.

11 Dec 2017 3:02 PM IST

Atezolizumab reinvigorates patients immune systems against cancer (Photo: Pixabay)

Drug gives 4 more months to lung cancer patients

Patients with non-small-cell lung cancer survived for 13.8 months on average on the drug called atezolizumab

13 Dec 2016 9:47 AM IST