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 ...

Cancer begins when cells in the body grow and spread uncontrollably, forming a tumor. How does cancer start in the body? Our body is made up of innumerable cells and the genes present inside the ...

Like people, cells in the human body protect their personal space. They seem to know how much space they need, and if it gets too tight, most cells prefer to break free. The mechanism enabling cells ...

A protein once thought to simply help cancer cells avoid death turns out to do much more. MCL1 actively drives cancer ...

How cancer spreads remains a mystery. Just how and why do cancer cells set off around the body to produce seedlings of cancer that grow into “secondaries” or metastases? What enables cancer cells to ...

The research, published today in Nature Communications, focuses on how cancer cells keep their chromosomes intact so they can continue dividing relentlessly. Normally, every time a cell divides, the ...

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

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

The first patient in England has been treated with a personalised cancer vaccine. The jabs use the same mRNA technology as COVID vaccines - here's what you need to know about how they work and what ...

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 has been awarded for discoveries that explain how the immune system attacks hostile infections, but not the body's own cells. The prize is shared by ...