For decades, cancer care remained relatively unchanged, as doctors largely relied on three main strategies for confronting tumors: surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. Yes, more sophisticated ...

The world's leading organization of oncologists will honor Jim Allison, Ph.D., for his pioneering research that led to a new way to treat cancer by unleashing an immune system attack rather than ...

For inventing a completely new way to strike cancer by unlocking a shackled immune system attack, Jim Allison, Ph.D., chair of Immunology at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, will ...