Cancer

When the common chemotherapy drugs cisplatin or oxaliplatin hit cancer cells, they damage DNA so that the cells can't replicate....

The human immune system is poised to spring into action at the first sign of a foreign invader, but it...

In certain types of cancer, nerves and cancer cells enter an often lethal and intricate waltz where cancer cells and...

Using advanced technology and an approach that merges engineering and medicine, a Yale University-led team has compiled some of the...

A new study led by University of Toronto researcher Dr. David Lam has discovered the trigger behind the most severe...

Queen’s University cancer researcher Madhuri Koti has discovered a biomarker that will help lead to better predictions of the success...

An experimental drug that attacks brain tumor tissue by crippling the cells' energy source called the mitochondria has passed early...

A new study published in the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) suggests the link between aspirin and...

A pioneering class of drugs that target cancers with mutations in the BRCA breast cancer genes could also work against...

A trained scent dog accurately identified whether patients' urine samples had thyroid cancer or were benign (noncancerous) 88.2 percent of...

Michail Sitkovsky, an immunophysiology expert at Northeastern University, and his research colleagues have made a breakthrough discovery in cancer treatment....

Researchers at UC Davis have developed and characterized a molecule that interferes with the internal regulation of cancer cells, causing...

Changing the shape of breast cancer cells could make the disease more sensitive to treatments - even driving the body's...

Scientists have identified weak spots in cancer cells that could be targeted and attacked by new precision drugs. A major...