How spreading tumour cells gain the ability to grow in organs away from where they originated is not fully understood. The discovery that normal liver cells help invading tumour cells to thrive in ...

Learning how to talk to kids about cancer is something no parent should need to do. Unfortunately, the reality for many families is that they will. Their announcements followed research published last ...

Kesem at Illinois is a chapter of the national nonprofit organization that supports children impacted by a parent’s cancer diagnosis. The University chapter was founded in 2007 with the mission of ...

Short facts about the study: basic research // preclinical, quantitative study // in vitro with cell samples from cancer patients // A new study led by researchers at Lund University in Sweden, ...

Despite the increased incidence of endometrial cancer in younger women, there is limited research regarding the safety of local, low-dose vaginal estrogen therapy (ET) for survivors. A new study ...

Immunofluorescence staining of a tumor section from a patient with oral cancer. Human oral cancer cells (white) express abundant EGFR (red) within the tumor and in the adjacent peripheral nerve (green ...

Breast cancer is becoming increasingly treatable, but in some cases the disease can resurface even decades after a patient has been declared cancer free. This is because of cells that detach from the ...

What if cancer cells became their own enemies? A team from Stanford seems to have found a way to achieve this goal. In our bodies, billions of cells are destroyed daily thanks to a process called ...