Sep. 20, 2024 — Researchers have used a drug screening platform they developed to show that an antidepressant, currently on the market, kills tumor cells in the dreaded glioblastoma -- at least ...

Tumors are one of the most misunderstood diagnoses or conditions. While no one wants to be told they have one, many people don't realize that a tumor is nothing more than a clump of abnormal cells ...

"So I was freaking out." The next day, a specialist diagnosed their daughter not with spina bifida, but with a sacrococcygeal teratoma, a rare fetal tumor that forms from the baby’s tailbone.

Perkins Head of Cancer Microenvironment, Professor Ruth Ganss from the University of Western Australia (UWA), said the new research had shown an alternative path to high doses of anti-cancer drugs ...

A mediastinal tumor is a growth that occurs in the space inside the chest, near organs such as the heart and lungs. Some of these tumors may cause symptoms, but some may not. When mediastinal ...

This Facts & Figures report provides statistics about the occurrence of breast cancer as well as about its risk factors, prevention, early detection, and treatment. For a short summary, see the news ...

Estimated numbers of new cancer cases and deaths in 2022 (In 2022, there will be an estimated 1.9 million new cancer cases diagnosed and 609,360 cancer deaths in the United States.) Current cancer ...

Glioblastoma is a particularly aggressive brain tumor that at present is incurable. Cancer doctors can extend patients' life expectancy through operations, radiation, chemotherapy or surgical ...

Lung cancer survival without treatment is shorter than survival with treatment. People with untreated non-small cell lung cancer—the most common type—typically live between 5 and 12 months after ...

Oct. 7, 2024 — A blood test, performed when metastatic prostate cancer is first diagnosed, can predict which patients are likely to respond to treatment and survive the longest. It can help ...

Vancouver Canucks forward Dakota Joshua announced Tuesday he was diagnosed with testicular cancer this summer and underwent surgery to remove a tumor. Joshua, 28, said he was continuing to recover ...