More than three decades ago, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) as the first immunotherapy against cancer. And it is still used today to treat ...

In healthy animals, the probe provides remarkably clear images of immune system organs such as bone marrow, spleen ... inflammation generally and with high sensitivity through whole-body imaging.

This is because they can cause a drop in the number of white blood cells made in the bone marrow. Cancer treatments that are more likely to weaken the immune system are: chemotherapy targeted cancer ...