The findings show that prolonged targeted therapy in patients with head and neck cancer can heighten tumor alertness, ...

The immune system provides constant surveillance for the body, aiming to spot and eliminate disease-causing microbes or ...

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 ...

“There has never really been an integrated explanation as to why cancer cells develop plasticity,” said Antonio Iavarone, M.D. “That’s what our study does. We’ve now revealed how the plasticity of ...

Synthetic lethality may help overcome cancer therapeutic resistance by exploiting tumour vulnerabilities, supported by ...

Cancer cells are basically the ultimate rule-breakers of the body. Under normal conditions, our cells follow a pretty strict ...

University of Sydney researchers unmasked the role of the fertility gene known as PRDM9 when studying drug-resistant cells known as persister cells that survive chemotherapy treatment. They found ...

Scientists have discovered that some cancer cells pretend to be ‘super fit’ to fool normal healthy cells into giving them their nutrients, allowing them to expand and spread around the body. A team ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Researchers at the Indiana University School of Medicine are developing new ways to fight tumors and aggressive forms of cancer—such as triple-negative breast cancer, ...

In tumor immunotherapy, the body's own defense system is activated against the tumor cells. However, for the majority of patients, the tumor cells become resistant to the treatments used. Researchers ...

New Delhi: Some cancer cells turn on their “cell death” programme during drug therapy. Instead of killing them, the therapy helps them persist and regrow in some cases. A new study by the University ...