When a cancer cell leaves the original tumor to spread to a new, faraway location, it first has to survive what most cells ...

Imperial College London and UCL Genetics Institute have created a detailed map of cells within breast tumors and identified distinct neighborhoods of proliferating and dormant cells.

In a wholly new approach to cancer treatment, Northwestern University biomedical engineers have doubled the effectiveness of chemotherapy in animal experiments. Instead of attacking cancer directly, ...

There is a constant war going on in your body. Working against you are viruses and cancer cells growing uncontrollably, threatening your tissues and organs. Fighting on your side are immune cells such ...

Cancer cells can brainwash their neighbors. Like the CIA deploying secret agents to turn an enemy, tumors use a similar strategy to manipulate nearby cells. The tumors’ agents are mitochondria, the ...

Targeted therapy and immunotherapy have transformed cancer treatment, but they work in very different ways. A medical ...

This silent, yet dangerous, disease often goes unnoticed for years till the time the organ gets completely impaired due to ...