Cancer often infiltrates a person’s life long before anyone knows it. By the time symptoms arise and an examination indicates the worst, the disease has often been growing for months and sometimes ...

Most cancer genome studies have focused on mutations in the tumor itself and how such gene variants allow a tumor to grow unchecked. A new study takes a deep dive into inherited cancer mutations ...

Researchers at Åbo Akademi University have identified a new molecular change in patients with colorectal cancer and developed ...

Scientists have developed a tool that can predict how bowel cancer adapts to treatment – helping researchers to design new personalized drugs that will keep patients living well for longer. A team ...

100 years ago, this unlikely duo discovered the first cancer ‘germ.’ By Bill Gourgey Published Oct 4, 2025 12:00 PM EDT Image: Popular Science Composite Get the ...

Results of a VHIO led study show that up to 90% of chronically hypoxic patients have an EPAS1 alteration in their tumor, a gene critical for adapting to lack of oxygen in populations living at ...

Heart cancer is a rare and serious condition in which abnormal cells grow uncontrollably on or near the heart, forming a tumor. Unlike more common cancers affecting the lungs, breast, or colon, heart ...

Research from molecular biologist Ludmil Alexandrov, from UC San Diego, offers insight into colon cancer as it's the third most common type of the disease ...

You can take actions to help protect yourself from cancer—and your state can too with systematic interventions, such as policies, programs, and educational campaigns, to reduce cancer risk factors and ...