Physicians stand to earn big money when signing up patients for drug trials. And lately, some of those trials have been ...

Cancer patients often lose excessive amounts of weight. This affects up to 80% of patients and is mainly due to a decrease in ...

In new research on the status of cancer disparities in the United States, American Cancer Society (ACS) scientists report higher cancer mortality rates among adults living in rural areas, certain ...

A research team of Prof. Eijiro Miyako at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) has discovered that ...

New diagnostic chip pulls packets released from tumor cells out of blood, showing whether cancer cells died during ...

At certain point of cancer progression, primary localized tumors may disseminate to distant organs, including lymph nodes, lungs, bones, liver, or brain. The current options to treat cancer metastases ...

Two recent studies show the novel therapy works in people with multiple myeloma, but researchers are trying to minimize side ...

Extracellular vesicles serve as essential mediators of communication between immune cells and tumor cells, and the recent ...

Skin cancer is cancer that begins in skin cells and typically causes unusual growth or changes. Some types of skin cancer can spread to other parts of the body. Skin cancer is the most common form of ...

If you or someone close to you has lung cancer, one of your first questions probably is if you might be cured. That is, what are your chances of survival? More Americans die of lung cancer than from ...

Over the past century, most cancer research has focused on the tumor itself. Rakesh Jain focused on the tumor's environment ...

Cancer immunotherapy is a therapy used to treat cancer patients that involves or uses components of the immune system. Some cancer immunotherapies consist of antibodies that bind to, and inhibit the ...