Cancer

October 30, 2026

Colorado study shows how to make (and destroy) a metastatic cancer cell

Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Many cancers become especially dangerous only when they metastasize from their site of origin...

Childhood brain tumor treatment impairs new memory formation

Credit: Melanie Sekeres Young people who received radiation therapy for the most common pediatric brain tumor struggle to create new...

Children with brain tumors who undergo radiation less likely to recall recent events

Credit: credit to Melanie Sekeres, Ph.D. Children with certain types of brain tumors who undergo radiation treatment are less likely...

Study details effect of radiation exposure on hormone deficiencies

Credit: Joe Fuqua, University of Cincinnati CINCINNATI--In a new study, University of Cincinnati (UC) researchers, in collaboration with Massachusetts General...

Safeway Foundation grant awarded to the National Foundation for Cancer Research

Credit: NFCR ROCKVILLE, MD - The National Foundation for Cancer Research (NFCR) is one of 13 local and regional organizations...

Brain cancer potentially resists immunotherapies by trapping T cells in bone marrow

Credit: Osaka University Osaka, Japan - Certain brain cancers are associated with low numbers of immune system T-cells circulating in...

E-cigarettes can damage DNA

BOSTON, Aug. 20, 2018 -- The popularity of electronic cigarettes continues to grow worldwide, as many people view them as...

New drug could prevent debilitating side effect of cancer treatment

Credit: Courtesy of Dennis Riley BOSTON, Aug. 20, 2018 -- About 50,000 people in the U.S. are diagnosed annually with...

Blood test could detect kidney cancer up to five years prior to clinical diagnosis

Credit: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center BOSTON - Every year, more than 330,000 people are diagnosed with kidney cancer worldwide....

Lowering pH inside cells may put the brakes on cancer growth

TAMPA, Fla. - A new study focusing on the environment inside cancer cells may lead to new targeted treatment strategies....

Retinoic acid may improve immune response against melanoma

Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Immunotherapies use the immune system to fight cancer. But cancers like melanoma have found...

Smart fluorescent dyes

Controlling the excited electronic states in luminescent systems remains a challenge in the development of fluorescent and phosphorescent dyes. Now,...

Scientists discover chemical which can kill glioblastoma cells

Aggressive brain tumour cells taken from patients self-destructed after being exposed to a chemical in laboratory tests, researchers have shown....

New clues into how ‘trash bag of the cell’ traps and seals off waste

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The mechanics behind how an important process within the cell traps material before recycling it has...

Penn Medicine’s Carl June Receives 2018 Albany Prize

Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - Carl June, MD, a gene therapy pioneer at the Abramson Cancer Center of the University...

Rosenberg, NCI-supported researchers to receive 2018 Albany Prize

Credit: Rhoda Baer Steven A. Rosenberg, M.D., Ph.D., of the Center for Cancer Research (CCR) at the National Cancer Institute...

Rare cancer could be caught early using simple blood tests

Credit: Wikipedia Commons A pioneering study into myeloma, a rare cancer, could lead to GPs using simple blood tests to...

Researchers predict risk for common deadly diseases from millions of genetic variants

Credit: Lauren Solomon A research team at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and Harvard...

Researchers uncover a major new vulnerability of childhood leukemia

Credit: Kateřina Čermáková Childhood leukemia is a diagnosis that no family ever wants to endure. While the treatment of most...

MD Anderson and Accelerator Life Science Partners launch Magnolia Neurosciences