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BOSTON - An urgent question for cancer scientists is why immunotherapy achieves dramatic results in some cases but doesn't help most patients. Now, two research...

Credit: IDIBELL Researchers of the Molecular Signaling in Cancer group of the Oncobell program (Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute - IDIBELL) - proCURE Program (Catalan Institute...

RESTON, Va. - The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) has published appropriate use criteria (AUC) for somatostatin receptor PET imaging in neuroendocrine...

New research shows that women who are dissatisfied with the size of their breasts are less likely to carry out regular self-examinations to screen for...

ATLANTA -January 4, 2018-The cancer death rate dropped 1.7% from 2014 to 2015, continuing a drop that began in 1991 and has reached 26%, resulting...

The New Year is an excellent time to make resolutions for a healthier lifestyle - but by the end of the first week of January,...

Credit: Iavarone Lab, Columbia University Medical Center New York, NY (January 3, 2017)--The fusion of two adjacent genes can cause cancer by kicking mitochondria into...

Credit: Anupama Lakshmanan/Caltech In the 1966 science fiction film Fantastic Voyage, a submarine is shrunken down and injected into a scientist's body to repair a...

A virus injected directly into the bloodstream could be used to treat people with aggressive brain tumours, a major new study reports. Scientists have found...

Scientists have shown how alcohol damages DNA in stem cells, helping to explain why drinking increases your risk of cancer, according to research part-funded by...

Credit: The Ottawa Hospital The Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy (ACGT), a non-profit based in Stamford, Connecticut, dedicated to funding breakthrough cancer gene therapy treatments,...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- New results from a clinical trial involving more than 900 military veterans at high risk for keratinocyte carcinoma skin cancer provides evidence...

Credit: Lima et. al. 2017, Hormuth et. al. 2015 Attempts to eradicate cancer are often compared to a "moonshot" -- the successful effort that sent...

PITTSBURGH, PA -- Long-term follow-up results of the NRG Oncology trial NSABP B-31 have shown that the addition of trastuzumab to adjuvant chemotherapy does not...

Credit: University of California, Davis RESTON, Va. - The new total-body PET/CT scanner could revolutionize our understanding and treatment of disease through analysis of better...