When you take a drug, where in your body does it actually go? For most medications, scientists can make only educated guesses ...

Your liver cells are forgetting how to do their jobs under dietary stress. Here's how that signals cancer risk years before ...

A fatty diet doesn’t just damage the liver — it rewires its cells in ways that give cancer a dangerous head start.

One of the biggest risk factors for developing liver cancer is a high-fat diet. A new study from MIT reveals how a fatty diet ...

Cancer imaging is entering a phase where malignant cells no longer hide in murky grayscale but flare into view with surgical ...

No matter where cancer cells grow in the human body, they are a threat to our health and our lives. But instead of treating them with chemotherapy or radiation - which have undesirable side effects - ...

A hidden “jack-in-the-box” mechanism inside T cells may hold the key to unlocking more powerful cancer immunotherapies.

Over the past century, most cancer research has focused on the tumor itself. Rakesh Jain focused on the tumor's environment ...

When cell division (mitosis) takes too long, it can be a sign that something is wrong with the cells, for example, DNA damage ...

The terms tumor and cancer can refer to different types of lumps and bumps. But the terms are often confused and misused—by ...

Statistics show a clear spike in eight cancers in younger people, but that has brought a debate over whether many cases ever needed to be found. By Gina Kolata The statistics are incontrovertible: ...

A recent report found that women account for two-thirds of all cancers diagnosed in people under 50. But it's not all bad news. A PET scan of a female patient with breast cancer, which has spread to ...