New research shows a common skin fungus can help melanoma spread by changing cancer cell movement and energy use.

Brain tumors are abnormal growths of cells in or around the brain. They can be primary (originating in the brain) or secondary (metastatic, spreading to the brain from cancer elsewhere). They can also ...

Millions of people worldwide are diagnosed with cancer every year. In advanced tumor diseases, cancer cells detach from the ...

A new experimental vaccine could slow down triple negative breast cancer and reduce its recurrence after treatment.

Researchers have discovered how pancreatic cancer reprograms its surroundings to spread quickly and stealthily. By using a protein called periostin, the tumor remodels nearby tissue and invades nerves ...

Small cell lung cancer cells that metastasize to the brain cozy up to neurons and form working electrical connections, called synapses, according to an upcoming study led by Stanford Medicine ...

A group of scientists in China has revealed a novel mechanism whereby a short form of IL-18, generated by caspase-3 cleavage ...

Why do some tumors spread while others remain localized? The mechanisms governing the metastatic potential of tumor cells ...

Researchers at Nano Life Science Institute (WPI-NanoLSI) and the Cancer Research Institute at Kanazawa University have ...