Immunotherapy is a promising new field of cancer research that is generating a lot of international headlines. It is a type of cancer treatment that trains and uses a patient’s immune system to fight cancer.

By performing one of the largest studies of the genetic make-up of bone cancers called osteosarcomas, researchers at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and their collaborators discovered that a subset of people with these cancers have genetic mutations that may make their tumours sensitive to an existing drug. Learn more in this article.

Researchers at Monash University in Australia are investigating a new therapy to help promote muscle growth, which could help counteract muscle wasting in diseases like cancer. Learn more in this article.

Researchers are developing new immunotherapy treatments called CAR-T therapies that train immune cells to fight cancer better in the body. Learn more in this CTV News article.

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology learned how the immune system recognizes and destroys cells that have accumulated an abnormal, unbalanced amount of genetic information, which could turn the cell cancerous. These findings could lead to new immunotherapies designed to tackle cancer. Learn more in this article.

New research at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre presented at the annual American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting shows early promise for a new sarcoma vaccine. Read more in this article.