Breast cancer drug could treat tough uterine cancer

Uterine cancer is now considered the deadliest cancer affecting the female reproductive system. Every year, tens of thousands of women are diagnosed with the disease,...

New Prostate Cancer Pill May Help Men Recover Faster After Treatment

Scientists are continuing to search for cancer treatments that not only fight disease effectively but also reduce side effects and improve quality of life...

Scientists Discover Major Hidden Cause Behind Liver Cancer Growth

Liver cancer is one of the fastest-growing causes of cancer death around the world. Every year, hundreds of thousands of people die from the disease,...

Scientists Discover Hidden Cause of Liver Cancer Growth

Liver cancer is one of the deadliest forms of cancer in the world. It causes hundreds of thousands of deaths every year and is...

Why colon cancer stops responding to treatment so quickly

Scientists have made an important discovery about why some colorectal cancers quickly become resistant to treatment. Researchers from Weill Cornell Medicine and MD Anderson Cancer...

Asthma drug could boost immunotherapy against hard-to-treat cancers

A drug that millions of people already use for asthma and allergies may one day become part of cancer treatment, according to a new...

Scientists directly measure how smoking makes lungs stiffer and harder to breathe

Scientists have long known that smoking damages the lungs, but a new study has now shown in detail how smoking physically changes lung tissue...

Smoking makes human lungs stiffer like scar tissue

A new study has provided some of the clearest evidence yet of how smoking physically damages human lungs. For the first time, scientists directly measured...

Where you get rectal cancer treatment could affect your survival

A new study suggests that the hospital where a person receives treatment for rectal cancer may strongly affect the quality of care they receive...

Gene editing can make blood cancer treatment safer and more powerful

Some of the most dangerous blood cancers are extremely difficult to cure. Diseases such as acute myeloid leukemia, often called AML, and myelodysplastic syndrome,...