Ovarian cancer remains the leading cause of death among cancers affecting the female reproductive system, largely because current treatments are not effective once the cancer has spread (metastasized) ...

Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT), a process by which cancer cells detach from their neighboring cells and acquire invasive properties, plays a key role in the formation of metastases and ...

Recent research points to the potential utility of a familiar sounding foe–herpes virus–in the fight against cancer.

Activity of bevacizumab at the time of surgery after 6 weeks of preoperative cessation. Background: EMT is a phenotypic description of cancer cells that include loss of cell adhesion, increased ...

Cells are the smallest units of life. But even within the same tissue or organ, they are not all identical. New variations arise continuously during cell proliferation. While genetic mutations alter ...

A pair of recent studies from the laboratory of Bin Zhang, MD, Ph.D., the Johanna Dobe Professor of Cancer Immunology, have ...

Can our immune systems defeat cancer? Maybe so, if they have the right diet. KPBS sci-tech reporter Thomas Fudge tells us that T-cells that consume acetate can kill more cancer cells. Imagine your ...

P-cadherin is a protein commonly found on malignant cancer cells and has been used as a target for antibody-based cancer treatments. UC Davis biomedical engineers have discovered that when an antibody ...

The chemotherapy-antibody combinations, known as antibody drug conjugates, have been described as both heat-seeking missiles and Trojan horses for cancer cells, designed to specifically home in on ...