Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Haylie Helms, M.S., an OHSU graduate student in biomedical engineering, is lead author on a review in Nature Reviews. Helms works ...

Cancer’s strongest gene switches push DNA into damaging overdrive, creating repeated breaks and repairs that may fuel tumor ...

A new US study has identified a simple four-marker blood test that can detect pancreatic cancer with high accuracy, including ...

Researchers have discovered that aging may fundamentally reshape how lung cancer spreads. A stress-response protein called ...

Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center have developed a new way to predict how cancer cells evolve by gaining and losing whole chromosomes, changes that help tumors grow, adapt and resist treatment. In ...

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 ...

Lung cancer remains the world’s deadliest cancer, and cigarette smoke is its chief culprit. Chemicals in tobacco, such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), damage DNA and trigger the mutations ...

New research looked at how cancers arise in children who are predisposed to developing the childhood kidney cancer, Wilms tumor, which could help anticipate the development of tumors before they fully ...

A team of UNC-Chapel Hill researchers were recently awarded a $10 million grant from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health to further develop the Cancer Identification and Precision ...

It impacts roughly 1 in 300 Americans — and puts people at a higher risk of developing cancer before age 50.

More people are diagnosed with skin cancer each year in the U.S. than all other cancers combined. About 1 in 5 Americans will develop skin cancer in their lifetime. But unlike some other types, skin ...