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,...
Deadly ovarian cancer may hide behind a protective fluid shield
Ovarian cancer remains one of the most difficult cancers to treat successfully.
Many women do not realize they have the disease until it has already...
New DNA blood test could help doctors track and treat cancer spread
When cancer spreads beyond its original location, treatment becomes much more difficult.
Doctors often depend on imaging scans like CT scans and MRI scans to...
Research finds how to wipe out dangerous ‘zombie cells’ in cancer and aging
A major new study has revealed how dangerous “zombie cells” survive inside the body and continue causing harm long after they stop functioning normally.
Scientists...