Getting energy and nutrients from the environment – that is, eating – is such an important function that it has been regulated through sophisticated mechanisms over hundreds of millions of...

Researchers say higher vitamin D levels may help improve a person’s odds of surviving breast cancer. Experts say most people in the United States don’t have sufficient vitamin D levels because only...

It had been a long four years since that July night when Marianne Sarcich first felt the lump in her right breast as she toweled off from a shower. Breast cancer. The cancer was caught early enough that...

Researchers are about to welcome a new one-stop shop for crucial information on how the immune system targets cancers. The National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the National Institutes of Health has granted...

By 2030, pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), the most lethal form of pancreatic cancer, is projected to become the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States. Not only are...

New research indicates that certain anti-cancer therapies may hasten cellular aging, where changes in the DNA of patients may contribute to greater inflammation and fatigue. The findings are published...

A new cancer vaccine could boost the positive effects of existing immunotherapy drugs, improving the success rate of treatments from 20% to 75% of cases, according to a new study by immunologists from...

Researchers at UNSW Sydney have found a way to detect a very low amount of a cancer biomarker in undiluted blood in just 15 minutes, a result that could eventually play a key role in evaluating the effectiveness...

The novel Galleri blood test (GRAIL, Inc.), which claims to detect up to 50 different cancers from single blood draw, is about to make its clinical debut in the United States. However, an expert cautions...

Scientists at the National Institutes of Health determined that stomach inflammation is regulated differently in male and female mice after finding that androgens, or male sex hormones, play a critical...