An international team of scientists led by the Medical University of Vienna has identified similarities in the mechanisms of diabetes and cancer: as the researchers show, the protein PPARγ, which is ...

Lots of people would like to do things to reduce their risk of cancer, and eating less of one type of food may help.

A hidden clue may explain why some mutated cells become cancerous and others don’t: how fast they divide. A new study from ...

A Minnesota woman was told her stage 4 colon cancer couldn’t be cured. Two years later, she’s cancer-free — and says a last-chance clinical trial gave her back her life.

Scientists from the Garvan Institute of Medical Research have discovered that certain gene changes linked to leukemia may ...

The risk of cancer goes up with age, in part because aging impedes the body's ability to detect and destroy cells with ...

A new study found that the immunotherapy treatment worked against some types of cancers, allowing patients to avoid surgery ...

Breast cancer is becoming increasingly treatable, but in some cases the disease can resurface even decades after a patient ...

Glioblastoma may be driven by 3D DNA folding patterns, not just mutations, offering new paths for treatment. A new ...

Researchers revealed that mitosis doesn’t always feature cell rounding (when a parent cell becomes spherical), meaning that ...

Cancer spreads fast and hits hard, especially when it reaches other organs. Once that happens, treatments become less ...

The ability of mutations to cause cancer depends on how fast they force cells to divide, Sinai Health researchers have found.