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A longstanding debate in the field of tumor immunology has to do with the importance of shared vs. unique antigens in cancer immunity. Should researchers be attempting to target antigens shared among different tumor…

Photo credit: Kirsten Luce for The New York TImes Once thought to be a single disease which could potentially be cured with a single magic bullet, cancer has long resisted our often simplistic efforts to overcome it.…

Antigen is a term you might never have heard before, but chances are that if we ever cure cancer, it will be because we learned how to take advantage of these important molecules. There’s a reason that Day 1 of the…

While we’ve known for decades that genetic mutations fuel cancer development and progression, only recently have doctors been able to begin translating that insight into improved treatment approaches and clinical…

All cancers have a genome that has become somewhat corrupted, whether through random mutations, viral infections, or both. This corruption fuels tumor growth and produces abnormal protein fragments known as neoantigens,…