Brazilian researchers have found that stellate pancreatic cells produce periostin, which reshapes surrounding tissue and allows tumors to spread more easily, helping explain why the disease is so ...

Cancer is transported from one organ to another by invisible bubbles. Understanding these microscopic messengers could change ...

Millions of people worldwide are diagnosed with cancer every year. In advanced tumor diseases, cancer cells detach from the ...

What Is Metastatic Throat Cancer? It’s cancer that starts in your throat and spreads to other parts of your body. Your doctor may call it stage IV or advanced throat cancer. Most throat cancers are ...

A protein found in our cells could act as an early warning sign for aggressive cancers—and a new target for drugs to stop them spreading. This is the discovery of scientists from Brunel University of ...

When prostate cancer spreads beyond the prostate gland to other parts of the body, it becomes what medical professionals call metastatic prostate cancer. This advanced form of the disease represents a ...

CNN — (CNN) — President Joe Biden’s diagnosis of metastatic prostate cancer has understandably raised concerns and questions: How long has he had cancer, how will he be treated, and what is his ...

Cancer specialists have long known that anemia, caused by a lack of healthy red blood cells, often arises when cancer metastasizes to the bone, but it's been unclear why. Now, a research team led by ...