cancers

Blood clots form in response to signals from the lungs of cancer patients — not from other organ sites, as…

Lung cancer is a particularly challenging form of cancer. It often strikes unexpectedly and aggressively with little warning, and it…

The government is investigating how many military personnel have been diagnosed with cancer, after claims that some helicopters left crew…

Preventing the cell’s protein factories from making the notorious cancer-causing protein MYC could stop out-of-control tumors. For decades, scientists have…

Genetically tailored treatment plans for children with a type of kidney cancer could help provide the most effective care while…

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and the Astrid Lindgren Children’s Hospital in Sweden have determined how children’s immune systems react to…

The tissue adjacent to a tumor behaves differently than areas farther away: The tumor’s cancerous cells influence their surroundings, blocking…

Two new studies led by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a possible way…

A University of Massachusetts Amherst-Ernest Pharmaceuticals team of scientists has made “exciting,” patient-friendly advances in developing a non-toxic bacterial therapy,…

More Americans are surviving cancer, but the disease is striking young and middle-aged adults and women more frequently, the American…