cancers

How do cells become cancerous, multiply uncontrollably, and form into tumors? And what role do aberrant embryonic stem cells play? These are big questions explored by medical researchers since the embryonic theory of cancer was first…

A deadly cancer that grows silently for years is striking down more young people than ever before — and tearing apart families in the process.While cancers have steadily fallen over recent decades, scientists have been mystified by an…

A chemical linked to a higher risk of leukemia and other blood cell cancers creeps into millions of homes whenever residents light their gas stoves. A new Stanford-led analysis finds that a single gas cooktop burner on high or a gas oven…

Huge medical breakthroughs mean that cancer is no longer a guaranteed 'death sentence', top experts have said.Data shows survival rates have soared over the past 50 years.Only one in four men with prostate cancer in the 1970s would be lucky…

A new test is twice as effective at detecting prostate cancer as the existing blood test that checks for the disease, according to a new study.Called Stockholm3, it involves a single blood test that looks for five proteins released from the…

Breakthrough in treating one of the deadliest blood cancers: 'Remarkably effective' new immunotherapy can slow disease's progress by 74 per centBy Kate Pickles Health Editor In Chicago Updated: 15:53 BST, 5 June 2023 …

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The final gift Catriona Remocker's father gave her was discovered by a lab in a vial of his blood.Dr. Geoffrey Remocker died of Stage IV prostate cancer in 2016, just two weeks after testing confirmed he was a carrier for genetic mutations…

Cancers often release molecules into the bloodstream that pathologically alter the liver, shifting it to an inflammatory state, causing fat buildup and impairing its normal detoxifying functions, according to a study from investigators at…

The difficult-to-treat brain cancer glioblastoma steals a person's mental faculties as it spreads, yet the tumor's insidious ability to infiltrate neighboring networks in the brain could also prove its undoing. Scientists at UC San…