Cancer

The findings, uncovered in mice and patient tumours, are published in Nature Cell Biology today. They reveal a previously unseen...

A study published in The Lancet Oncology establishes for the first time that artificial intelligence can process medical images to...

Credit: Roumen Voutev/Mann Lab/Columbia's Zuckerman Institute NEW YORK -- What do cancer and the growing legs of a fruit fly...

The master regulators of gut stem cells, called intestinal myofibroblasts, have pumps that protect them, and thus the gut, from...

Credit: Eivind Senneset "Since 1970, campaigns against smoking seem to have been largely successful, but the message has not been...

A new, simple web-based calculator that could better predict the long term risk of breast cancer returning in other areas...

SEATTLE - A new scientific study concludes there is no safe level of drinking alcohol. The study, published today in...

Globally, one in three people drink alcohol (equivalent to 2.4 billion people), and 2.2% of women and 6.8% of men...

Credit: K. Knouse et al./Cell 2018 For some cells, context is everything. Cells plucked out of their native environs have...

Credit: University of Texas at Austin A new combination of existing drugs shows promise that it could reduce the size...

Bottom Line: Could removing "cancer" from the terminology for low-risk small papillary thyroid cancers (PTCs) reduce patients' anxiety so they...

Credit: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (MEMPHIS, Tenn. - AUG. 23, 2018) St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators have completed...

Credit: Dartmouth Institute People with serious mental illness (SMI) have a reduced life expectancy of up to 25 years compared...

Credit: F. Canfarotto et al./Nano Letters A joint research team from Russia and the U.K. has demonstrated the possibility of...

Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center Combination immunotherapy shrank melanoma that has spread to the brain in more than half of...

Credit: Marcon et al., 2018 In most of Europe, the rates of smoking initiation among older teens have declined since...

Washington, DC - August 22, 2018 - Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) doesn't directly cause cancer, but infection with this common herpes...

The financial fallout from breast cancer can last years after diagnosis, particularly for those with lymphedema, a common side effect...

Credit: Penn Medicine As your eyes scan the horizon, the starry nightscape gives way to the first hints of light...

Carers for people with cancer are between 5 and 7 times more likely to have mental health problems than the...