Many people with cancer experience dramatic loss of muscle and fat tissue. In many cases, even the heart muscle is affected, which further weakens the body.

Scientists at UCSF and Gladstone Institutes have identified cancer drugs that promise to reverse the changes that occur in ...

Researchers at the University of Oxford and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have uncovered the mechanism by which cells identify and repair a highly toxic form of DNA ...

Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) is a deadly cancer with particularly high prevalence in East Asia. While ...

A new drug was shown to significantly reduce tumor growth in lab studies by up to 77% for melanoma and colorectal cancers.

CLL can mean fatigue, fear and years of waiting but new research shows that staying active helps people feel better – and ...

As cancer cases have increased worldwide, the disease has become more complex, presenting challenges to scientific advances ...

AbstractTo explore how early cancers can be detected prior to clinical signs or symptoms, we assessed prospectively collected serial plasma samples from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study, ...

In colorectal cancer, MESA’s diversity metrics outperformed established subtypes at predicting patient survival, whereas in hepatocellular carcinoma, multiomic integration identified significantly ...

From the clustering analysis, knockout genes that lead to the flux data near that of drug-sensitive cells are considered drug sensitization targets. This computational approach is demonstrated using ...

Neurons often receive organelles called mitochondria from other cells. It emerges that neurons donate mitochondria that support cancer-cell spread.

Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan studied what happens when macrophages—a type of immune cell—encounter dying cancer cells in tumors and discovered a mechanism that accelerates tumor ...