Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and cancer both represent diseases that classically occur in older individuals. However, these diseases rarely occur in the same person. In fact, individuals with AD have a 50 ...

In October, we mourned those who died of breast cancer and celebrated all of the women (and men) who have survived. What many of those survivors worry about, though, is that their breast cancer may ...

Metastasis, the spread of cancer throughout the body, can be explained by the fusion of a cancer cell with a white blood cell in the original tumor, according to Yale School of Medicine researchers, ...

The risk of developing breast cancer is higher in what are known as dense breasts, which appear white in mammograms, than in nondense breasts, which appear grey. Researchers have now shown that there ...

Research by UMass Chan Medical School scientists Sharon Cantor, PhD, and Jenna M. Whalen, PhD, poses a new explanation for how cancer-fighting drugs attack and destroy BRCA1 and BRCA2 tumor cells.

Elephants possess two qualities that might make one expect they are at high risk of developing cancer; they are large and they live long lives. A cell’s lifecycle involves repetitive rounds of ...

Cancer experts are clamoring to find an explanation for the grim growing trend of rising cancer rates among young people. While some blame processed food and obesity, others are not so sure. auremar - ...

One of the earliest descriptions of someone with cancer comes from the fourth century BC. Satyrus, tyrant of the city of Heracleia on the Black Sea, developed a cancer between his groin and scrotum.