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...
New therapy could help doctors fight deadly blood cancers
Aggressive blood cancers such as acute myeloid leukemia and myelodysplastic syndrome remain among the hardest cancers to treat successfully.
These diseases affect the bone marrow,...
Simple blood test may help doctors choose better treatment for spreading cancer
Cancer becomes much harder to treat once it starts spreading to other parts of the body.
Doctors often rely on scans such as CT scans,...
This old cholesterol drug may block spread of ovarian cancer
Ovarian cancer is one of the deadliest cancers affecting women. One reason it is so dangerous is that it is often discovered late, after...