Patients with high-risk melanoma who received the immunotherapy drug pembrolizumab both before and after surgery to remove cancerous tissue had a significantly lower risk of their cancer recurring than similar patients who received the drug only after surgery.
These results, published today in the New England Journal of Medicine, are from a research study led by the SWOG Cancer Research Network, a cancer clinical trials...

Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have developed a new approach to engineering natural killer (NK) cells with...
Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have identified a specific gut bacterium involved in the progression of graft-versus-host...
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center’s Research Highlights provides a glimpse into recent basic, translational and clinical cancer research from MD Anderson experts. Current advances include an investigation into the efficacy of dexamethasone for dyspnea relief, a combination therapy for hairy cell leukemia, an analysis of RAS mutations and their prognostic value in acute myeloid leukemia (AML), a possible new combination...

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center again supports World Cancer Research Day, Sept. 24, and its goals to highlight...
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center was awarded $2.5 million today from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas...
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center’s Research Highlights provides a glimpse into recent basic, translational and clinical cancer...
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Radiopharm Theranostics today announced the launch of Radiopharm Ventures, LLC, a joint...
Through extensive single-cell analysis, researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have created a spatial map of tumor-infiltrating...
The highly selective RET inhibitor selpercatinib was well-tolerated and achieved durable objective responses across multiple tumor types in...
ABSTRACT LBA25
Researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center reported study results showing...
ABSTRACT 789O
In an international, multicenter Phase II clinical trial led by The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 63.3%...
ABSTRACT 2170O
Patients who received trastuzumab deruxtecan (T-DXd) for human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2...
ABSTRACTS 735MO, 316O, 1MO, 1493MO, 457MO, 283MO, LBA68, 785O
The University of...
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Virogin Biotech today announced a strategic collaboration to accelerate the development...
Swathi Arur, Ph.D., professor and deputy chair of Genetics at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, has been selected as one...