There are nearly 40,000 U.S. cases of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma each year that advance to stages that are difficult to treat and life-threatening The investigational drug is an engineered ...

Herpes is a common virus that is getting a rebrand from University of Southern California researchers who are using it to treat stubborn advanced cancer. Herpes has been called “the gift that keeps on ...

The study examined 180 patients with advanced lung cancer who received a COVID vaccine within 100 days before or after beginning immunotherapy, as well as 704 similar patients who did not. Vaccinated ...

First-line treatment of advanced acral melanoma with the PD-1 inhibitor toripalimab (Loqtorzi) resulted in a small but ...

In patients with an advanced type of skin cancer called cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC), those who received the combination of the immunotherapy drug avelumab and targeted agent cetuximab had ...

According to an international study a new treatment for advanced skin cancer almost doubles survival times. Researchers say 132 patients in the U.S. and Australia who were given the drug vemurafenib ...

While it may give billions of people worldwide painful cold sores, a common virus could be harnessed to provide a much-need new cancer treatment. This is the conclusion of a study by researchers with ...

The most common treatments for skin cancer on the nose include surgery, radiation, and topical chemotherapy. Mohs surgery has the lowest rate of cancer recurrence among treatment options for skin ...

Like Katherine Heigl's character, a woman fights for her life against melanoma. May 14, 2009— -- Naomi Williams, 29, was watching a recent episode of the ABC hospital drama Grey's Anatomy, on ...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — May 20, 2025 — A common and unsightly skin cancer that can turn deadly has been undetectable for more than a year in a patient treated with a new targeted immune-therapy in a ...

Herpes has been called “the gift that keeps on giving” — finally, its presence has come in handy. Roughly two-thirds of the global population has been infected with herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) ...