Bowel cancer cells can “shapeshift” to resemble skin or muscle cells to enable them to spread aggressively, according to scientists who have hailed it as a major breakthrough they hope can help treat ...

Chronic inflammation may be quietly reshaping the colon and making it more vulnerable to early-onset colorectal cancer. Scientists found that colon tissue in younger patients was stiffer, even in ...

New research reveals that certain brain tumors may originate silently within normal brain cells long before a tumor forms.

A new Brazilian study has revealed the key role of the protein periostin and stellate pancreatic cells in allowing pancreatic ...

A small number of cancer cells with the ability to change their identities and behaviors appear to be a key driver of cancer ...

A small subpopulation of highly plastic cancer cells has been found to be for cancer progression and treatment resistance.

Even with breakthroughs, treatment for advanced squamous cell carcinoma is more complex. Patients often need more than one treatment. Many patients with this advanced cancer are cared for by a team of ...

Chemists at Bielefeld University have developed a molecule containing copper that binds specifically with DNA and prevents the spread of cancer. First results show that it kills the cancer cells more ...

A new study led by Aaron Hobbs, Ph.D., and Rachel Burge, Ph.D., at MUSC Hollings Cancer Center, reveals why a specific gene ...