Cancer cells are different to normal cells in various ways. They keep growing and dividing to form a lump (tumour) that grows in size.

A new wave of research is unpicking the relationship between cancer and neurons — and looking for ways to stop the crosstalk.

Vaccines are usually used to prevent infectious diseases. A therapeutic cancer vaccine is different. Rather than teaching the immune system to recognize pathogens in advance of an infection, these ...

Chemotherapy works by killing cancer cells and has different effects on different types of cancer. You might have a combination of different chemotherapy drugs.

Cancer cells have special adaptation mechanisms that allow them to proliferate despite changes in their genetic makeup. Researchers at RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau, Southwest Germany ...

The most common type of ovarian cancer is epithelial ovarian carcinoma. The other two types are germ cell tumors and stromal tumors.

Different types of cancer spread at different speeds. Additionally, the rate at which cancer spreads may depend on its grade and stage. This article discusses how fast cancer spreads in more detail.

Scientists transformed energy-storing white fat cells into calorie-burning 'beige' fat. Once implanted, they outcompeted tumors for resources, beating back five different types of cancer in lab ...

How cancer tumor cells can become immortal Typical cells are limited in how many times they can replicate. Cancer is different. by Pattra Chun-On, Jonathan Alder and The Conversation ...

Scientists used implanted fat cells to gobble up available nutrients around cancer tumors, starving the tumors to death.

The term cancer refers to a group of conditions where bodily cells divide and grow uncontrollably, often spreading into surrounding tissue. These cancerous cells then impair organ function. Cancer ...