By Devina Thiono In 2019, around 1.8 million new cancer cases are expected in the U.S. 12,000 out of this number are children aged 1-14, with leukemia accounting for a third of children cancer cases. Leukemia is a cancer that affects the blood. The main targets of leukemia are white blood cells, whose job is […]
By Clare Gyorke We’ve all heard of the big bad Cancer. There are many types of cancer, and cancer – which is an abnormal growth of cells somewhere in the body – happens for a variety of reasons. One main reason is that the immune system fails to kill a cell that is growing out […]
By Christina Marvin Immunotherapy is an entirely new way of thinking about cancer treatment. Traditional therapies such as surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation aim to target and destroy tumors. Often times, tumor targeting is poor or the treatments damage other parts of the body. Immunotherapy, on the other hand, teaches our body’s natural defenses (the immune […]