Younger colorectal cancer patients have abnormally stiff colon tissue that promotes tumor growth, pointing to biomechanical forces as a key factor in early-onset disease.

A new study led by Pierre Close's team (GIGA, Laboratory of Cancer Signaling, and WELRI Investigator) reveals how subtly disrupting the way tumors produce their proteins can trigger a potent antitumor ...

Exhaustion creeps in. Appetite vanishes. Hair thins. The person in the mirror looks gaunt. It's the paradox of cancer treatment: The same drugs meant to save a life can also wear the body down. Nick ...

New research published in Nature finds that tumor cells within supratentorial ependymomas (SE) – an aggressive childhood brain cancer – cluster into distinct tumor cell populations. Much like a ...

An enigmatic type of circulating tumor cell called a dual-positive (DP) cell is associated with shorter survival time in patients with advanced breast cancer, according to a study led by investigators ...

Microplastics have now been found inside most prostate cancer tumors — and at strikingly higher levels than in healthy tissue.

Doctors have a new emerging weapon in the fight against cancerous tumors: ultrasound. After a five-year study by the ...

Women with de novo metastatic breast cancer that is confined to a single distant organ may live longer when they undergo resection of the primary tumor, a large cohort study suggested. The study, of ...

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Aricca Wallace had a tumor the size of a baby's head. She likely had less than a year to live. This cervical cancer clinical ...

Ovarian cystic neoplasms are ovarian tumors that have cyst-like qualities. They can include epithelial ovarian tumors and germ cell tumors called teratomas. Ovarian cystic neoplasms can be benign, ...