Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center have developed a new way to predict how cancer cells evolve by gaining and losing whole chromosomes, changes that help tumors grow, adapt and resist treatment. In ...

Cancer’s strongest gene switches push DNA into damaging overdrive, creating repeated breaks and repairs that may fuel tumor ...

Cancer often infiltrates a person’s life long before anyone knows it. By the time symptoms arise and an examination indicates the worst, the disease has often been growing for months and sometimes ...

A new US study has identified a simple four-marker blood test that can detect pancreatic cancer with high accuracy, including ...

In pre-clinical models, high levels of lipids accelerated tumor growth in triple-negative breast cancer cells. Targeting blood lipids through medication or diet may help slow cancer progression, ...

New findings show how inherited and acquired genetic mutations cause breast cancer resistance to CDK4/6 inhibitors.

Heart cancer is a rare and serious condition in which abnormal cells grow uncontrollably on or near the heart, forming a tumor. Unlike more common cancers affecting the lungs, breast, or colon, heart ...

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is an aggressive form of blood cancer. It affects people of all ages but is most common in those over 65. Around 150 people are diagnosed with the disease each year in ...

You probably know someone who is affected by cancer. This disease results when cells divide uncontrollably and can make a person sick, sometimes very seriously. Cancer can occur anywhere in the body ...

A protein involved with cell death can be manipulated to slow or reverse tumor growth, a pair of new studies in mice found. A colorized three dimensional micrographic scan of a melanoma cell. Recent ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Haylie Helms, M.S., an OHSU graduate student in biomedical engineering, is lead author on a review in Nature Reviews. Helms works ...