Fewer African Americans are dying from cancer, but compared with white Americans their length of survival is shorter and the fatality rate is still far higher, according to a…

Researchers have found a compound that tumors make when they are likely to spread, and said they hope to use to it predict which patients are most at…

A new study shows that a test of biomarkers for DNA methylation is technically feasible and could aid in earlier, more precise diagnosis of melanoma.

In a paper that appeared…

British scientists have discovered a “rogue gene” which helps cancer spread around the body and say blocking it with the right kind of drugs could stop many types of…

Review suggests that breastfeeding can partially offset the long-term side effects of cancer treatment.

Women who have survived childhood cancer should be advised to breastfeed if they can, in order…

Scientists around the world have been hot on the trail of a genetic mutation closely associated with some brain cancers and leukemia since the mutation’s discovery in 2008.…

Most of the time cancer seems to creep up gradually over time; cells become premalignant, then increasingly abnormal before they become cancerous. But sometimes cancers seem to pop up as if out…

Remarkable new research overthrows the conventional view that cancer always develops in a steady, stepwise progression. It shows that in some cancers, the genome can be shattered into hundreds of fragments in…

Children and teens often get diagnostic tests that expose them to radiation, increasing the risk of cancer later in life, U.S. researchers said on Monday.

“In just a three-year span,…

Many young people who’ve just learned that they have cancer also are told that the therapies that may save their lives could rob them of their ability ever…

More effective risk-adjusted chemotherapy and sophisticated patient monitoring helped push cure rates to nearly 88 percent for older adolescents enrolled in a St. Jude Children’s Research…

About 90 percent of people are infected at some time in their lives with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), usually with no ill effects. But individuals with…

When raising your glass at this year’s holiday toast, choose your beverage wisely, say experts at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. If adults wish to drink alcohol, they…

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have identified components in pomegranate juice that both inhibit the movement of cancer cells and weaken their attraction…

Pediatric cancer researchers have identified variations in a gene as important contributors to neuroblastoma, the most common solid cancer of early childhood. The study team, led by researchers at…

Nearly half of colorectal and cervical cancers and a third of breast cancers in the United States are diagnosed in the late stages, even though screening tests are available…

The long, anxious wait for biopsy results could soon be over, thanks to a tissue-imaging technique developed at the University of Illinois.

The research team demonstrated the novel…

Using hyperthermia, Virginia Tech engineering researchers and a colleague from India unveiled a new method to target and destroy cancerous cells. The research was presented at the 63rd…

What prompts normal cells to transform themselves into cancerous cells? Researchers from Texas institutions, including the UT Health Science Center San Antonio, have identified factors in the…

Scientists at Johns Hopkins have identified a compound that could be used to starve cancers of their sugar-based building blocks. The compound, called a glutaminase inhibitor, has been…

New research that provides potential for exciting new approaches to targeting diseases such as cancer has been announced by an international team of academics.

They have also…

One third of U.S. patients dying of cancer end up getting costly but futile treatment in hospitals, when hospice care to ease their suffering would be more appropriate, researchers reported…

Researchers are closing in on highly sensitive devices that trap bits of cancer in the blood, offering a “liquid biopsy” that would give doctors and drug companies a…

New research from North Carolina State University shows that most online news stories about cancer contain language that likely contributes to public uncertainty about the disease –…

Many men – whose fertility may be at risk from cancer treatment – are not being offered the chance to store their sperm according to new research…