BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Indiana University researchers have identified a mechanism involving the body's ability to resist fungal infection. The work could help advance research on cancer therapies that use the body's own immune system to fight disease. In a study published Nov.

A strain of the common cold virus could help infect and kill bladder cancer cells, a small study suggests. All signs of the disease disappeared in one patient, and in 14 others there was evidence that cancer cells had died.

A woman with advanced breast cancer has made a dramatic recovery after receiving a personalised therapy using her own immune cells. It's the first time this type of therapy has worked in breast cancer, suggesting that it may be able to help many more people with common types of cancer, even after they've spread to other parts of the body.