The word "cancer" often brings fear, as it can affect anyone and, if left untreated, can become life-threatening. One of the ...

A longstanding scientific belief about a link between cancer prevalence and animal body size has been tested for the first ...

A new study examines cancer prevalence across hundreds of vertebrate species. Every multicellular creature, whether soaring ...

Cancer researchers at Children's Medical Research Institute have discovered an "unexpected mechanism" that our cells use to ...

Body size and excess weight, conventionally assessed using body mass index (BMI), are well-established risk factors for many ...

Small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) and non-small-cell lung cancer ... They include: The lung cancer stage, which is based on tumor size and whether or not it spread to other areas The type of NSCLC ...

Malignant brain tumors have cancer cells. Some grow quickly and others ... where it's located, its size, and your age and health. If you have cancer, it’s important to follow your treatment ...

A cancer drug developed ten years ago at UCSF can also put the brakes on one of prostate cancer's deadliest molecular tricks.

This groundbreaking finding suggests that Telomir-1 may selectively benefit healthy cells while suppressing malignant growth, challenging the assumption that telomere-elongating drugs inherently ...

Bigger animals live longer and have more cells that could go awry ... to show that there’s an association between body size and cancer prevalence, meaning that bigger species get more cancer ...

Chemotherapy and immunotherapy can last longer than months. Chemotherapy generally starts killing cancer cells and reducing tumor size within a few weeks, whereas immunotherapy takes longer ...

Humans evolved to our current body size relatively rapidly ... entire limbs—a process that involves lots of cell division, which cancer could exploit. Putting cancer into an evolutionary ...