Aggressive cancer cells are masters of movement. When they spread through the body, they cause metastasis, which significantly reduces a person's chance of survival. For this spreading to take place, ...

Cell therapies, which have made waves in the treatment of blood cancer, are showing potential for solid tumors.

Researchers at UCLA have created an “off-the-shelf" cell-based immunotherapy that can seek out and destroy pancreatic cancer ...

The DNA inside our cells is constantly being damaged, and one of the worst kinds of damage is a double-strand break-when both sides of the DNA helix are cut at once.

A Northwestern Medicine study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation has uncovered a connection between a ...

Your skin is in a constant state of reinvention. Every month, your body sheds and regenerates its entire outer layer—a ...

Fusion oncoproteins arise when a gene fuses with another gene and acquires new abilities. Such abilities can include the ...

Where might we look for inspiration for new cancer therapies? Some researchers say the bowhead whale may offer clues.

For anyone facing cancer, the treatment options can feel brutally familiar: surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, or a ...

A new nanoparticle vaccine successfully prevented several aggressive cancers in mice, including pancreatic and melanoma. The ...

Liposuction and plastic surgery aren’t often mentioned in the same breath as cancer. But they are the inspiration for a new approach to treating cancer that uses engineered fat cells to deprive tumors ...

The Kardashian sister wrote on Instagram that she had been dealing with chronic back pain for nearly three years, after ...