Scientists discovered that certain cancer cells use a low-level activation of a DNA-dismantling enzyme—normally seen in cell death—to survive treatment. Instead of dying, these “persister cells” ...

Cancer rates in women under 50 are now 82% higher than those of their male counterparts. Cancer rates in young and middle-aged women are rising, surpassing those in men of the same age—most alarmingly ...

Researchers created a new kind of cancer drug that can grab a mutant protein while also carrying a second hit against the ...

The reason for that, as it turns out, is because of one simple fact: I’m not actually scared of death. In fact, I don’t see ...

Deaths from cancer have declined by 33% since 1991, averting 4.1 million deaths. However, more people are being diagnosed with cancer than ever before, and at an earlier age, according to a major new ...

There has been a rapid increase in the global number of cancer cases and deaths between 1990 and 2023, despite advances in cancer treatment and efforts to tackle cancer risk factors over that same ...

Author Sophie Kinsella opened up about her battle with a glioblastoma — an "aggressive" form of brain cancer — before her death. Back in 2000, Kinsella found success with the release of her The ...

Japanese golf legend Masashi Ozaki died at 78 after battling stage 4 sigmoid colon cancer. The disease develops in the lower ...