Medical oncologist Heather Parsons, MD, MPH, witnessed how cancer affects the entire family when her younger sister was ...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to a trio of scientists for unraveling how the immune system protects us from thousands of different microbes trying to invade our ...

The National Breast Cancer Foundation estimates 1 in 39 women diagnosed with breast cancer will die, about 2.5%. It’s an overall decline of 44% from 1989. When caught at its earliest stages, the ...

Cancer is one of those long-term diseases that even when it fully goes away, comes back with different residual diseases in a different form. It’s residual illnesses often take the form of diabetes ...

Precancerous cells, also called premalignant cells, are abnormal cells that have changes in how they look or grow. The cells are not cancer, but they show changes that raise the risk of turning into ...

Being overweight or obese has long been linked to a greater risk of developing or dying from breast cancer. New research suggests a reason: Certain breast cancer tumors may feed on neighboring fat ...

UCSF scientists caught cancer cells in the act of breaking into fat cells and releasing their fat. The energy heist seems to be critical for the growth of deadly breast cancer. When triple-negative ...