2018 was a remarkable year for cancer research, with great strides made in diagnosing and treating various types of cancer as well as important breakthroughs looking at the health of cancer survivors. What can we expect to see from cancer research in 2019

Anticancer vaccines have gained a new lease of life with techniques to personalise them to individual patients. Cutting edge developments in this re-energised field were revealed at the ESMO Immuno-Oncology Congress in Geneva, Switzerland.

The first in-human study of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells targeting the tyrosine kinase receptor ROR1 in patients with solid tumors showed that the cells could be transferred into patients safely and expanded in vivo, according to findings from

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Keytruda (pembrolizumab) as a treatment for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) — the most common type of liver cancer — who previously had received Nexavar (sorafenib).

This newspaper (reporter Huang Xin) on October 26, the Chinese Academy of Sciences Documentation and Information Center and the American Chemical Abstracts Society held a special exhibition on biopharmaceuticals in Shanghai. They jointly issued a report o