By using a compound derived from a Himalayan fungus and used for centuries in Chinese medicine as a jumping off point, ...

Michael Wolff was at the "edge of a cliff" when he was diagnosed with a cancer that affects less than 300 patients a year in ...

In recent years, cell therapies have developed alongside chemotherapy and immunotherapy to become a new pillar in the treatment of patients with blood and lymph gland cancer. In solid tumors, such as ...

The technology is genuinely useful for scientific discovery, but its applications are less dramatic than you might think.

A rare cell type in the lungs is essential to survival from the COVID-19 virus, a new study shows.

One of the challenges of fighting pancreatic cancer is finding ways to penetrate the organ's dense tissue to define the margins between malignant and normal tissue. A new study uses DNA origami ...

Scientists discover how to rouse the immune system around "cold" tumors, making them vulnerable to cancer-killing immune ...

Called EchoBack CAR T-cells, these new cancer-fighting tools work with a quick burst of focused ultrasound to destroy tumors while avoiding damage to healthy tissues. This breakthrough is the ...

Early genetic events in the life of cancer cells, such as changes in the maintenance of telomeric length, or the activation of an oncogene can lead to genome instability. Loss-of-function variants ...

Stage 3 non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is lung cancer that has spread to nearby (regional) tissues. Stage 3 also has three sub-stages that give more details about how and where the cancer has ...

But what causes it and how can it be treated? What is breast cancer? It comes from a cancerous cell which develops in the lining of a duct or lobule in one of the breasts. When the breast cancer ...