New research is giving scientists a better understanding of the processes in the body that can lead to cancer.

Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center have developed a new way to predict how cancer cells evolve by gaining and losing whole chromosomes, changes that help tumors grow, adapt and resist treatment. In ...

Scientists at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) and their colleagues are shedding new light on a tumor's earliest moments—revealing how lung cells with cancer-causing mutations recruit ...

Heart cancer is a rare and serious condition in which abnormal cells grow uncontrollably on or near the heart, forming a tumor. Unlike more common cancers affecting the lungs, breast, or colon, heart ...

We found four breast cancer risk prediction models that had been tested enough times to evaluate in detail. These were the Gail, Tyrer-Cuzick, BOADICEA, and BRCAPRO models. The BOADICEA model was one ...

Scientists have developed a tool that can predict how bowel cancer adapts to treatment – helping researchers to design new personalized drugs that will keep patients living well for longer. A team ...

GLP-1 drugs aren’t just reducing weight — they may also be reducing the chances of developing one of the most common and ...

Did you know that a simple genetic test called DNA testing is all that is needed to understand if you are at risk of ...

Bacteriophages (blue) infecting a bacterium. (Nemes Laszlo/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) Researchers have made a ...

Breast cancer is the second-most common cancer among women in the U.S. behind skin cancer, according to the Centers for ...

More people are diagnosed with skin cancer each year in the U.S. than all other cancers combined. About 1 in 5 Americans will develop skin cancer in their lifetime. But unlike some other types, skin ...