Results of a VHIO led study show that up to 90% of chronically hypoxic patients have an EPAS1 alteration in their tumor, a gene critical for adapting to lack of oxygen in populations living at ...

Cancer cells respond to stress with greater diversity. Drugs that affect DNA replication, or radiation that causes direct DNA damage, lead to increasingly diverse offspring over multiple cell ...

Melanoma cancer cells can paralyze the immune cells that attack them by secreting extracellular vesicles, a new study finds.

Cancer immunotherapy has been transformed by engineered T cells, but those bespoke treatments are slow, expensive, and out of ...

Short bouts of exercise can protect against bowel cancer, according to a study, giving researchers hopes for new cancer ...

Scientists have discovered how breast cancer cells hibernate to evade treatment before 'waking up' years later. The most common form of breast cancer can become dormant for decades but later cause a ...

Scientists have developed a tool which helps them better understand cancer’s survival tactics and could eventually lead to new treatments for dozens of cancer types. Some cancers are caused by ...

become specialised (mature). This means they have a specific role to perform for example as a muscle cell or red blood cell. Cancer cells are different to normal cells in various ways. Cancer cells ...

All cancers begin in cells. Our bodies are made up of more than a hundred million million (100,000,000,000,000) cells. Cancer starts with changes in one cell or a small group of cells. Usually, we ...