A “two-for-one” cancer immunotherapy is potentially more effective and at least as safe as standard immunotherapies, physician-scientists from UPMC Hillman Cancer Center who led an… Read more
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Cancer-Infecting Virus ‘Warms Up’ Cold Tumors and Improves Immunotherapy
Equipping cancer-infecting, or oncolytic, viruses with tumor-inhibiting genetic cargo stimulates the immune system and helps immunotherapy to shrink or completely clear aggressive tumors in mice,… Read more
UPMC and Pitt Researchers Identify Link Between Cancer-Causing Gene and Aging
A gene called Myc (pronounced “mick”) that is among the most important drivers of cancer in both mice and humans also plays a newly discovered… Read more
‘Serious Games’ Could Help Women Navigate Cancer Treatment
Meet Angela, a single mom in her late 30s who works at a local coffee shop. She’s recently been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer, and… Read more
How Skin Cancer Virus Outcompetes Host Cell Replication
University of Pittsburgh researchers have shown for the first time how Merkel cell polyomavirus (MCV), which causes an aggressive skin cancer called Merkel cell carcinoma,… Read more