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Researchers believe that combining immunotherapy with traditional therapies such as radiation could open up new possibilities for cancer treatment.

Armed with new insights into the interactions between cancer and the immune system, research teams are developing novel treatments to harness the full potential of the body’s natural defenses.

New research has found that a parasite first identified in dogs could help stimulate the human immune system to attack cells of cancerous tumours.

Finding ways to use our immune system to fight cancer could pave the way for personalized cancer treatment. But to get there, we need to overcome some pretty big obstacles.

New immunotherapy drugs that enhance the body’s natural ability to fight cancer offer several key advantages over previous treatments.

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Drugs that help the immune system recognise cancer are very promising.

Immunotherapy hasn’t quite lived up to its early promise – but chemotherapy took a while to get off the blocks, too.

There is no one-size-fits-all approach to treating cancer. Understanding how cancer cells evolve could help researchers develop more effective drugs.

Avoidance is not the only option for very young children with peanut allergies.