Background Peritoneal metastasis is the most common metastasis pattern of gastric cancer. Patients with gastric cancer ...

A team led by Prof. Wang Chao and Prof. Huang Chengdong from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the ...

Tumor suppressor genes make proteins that regulate the growth of cells, and they play an important role in preventing the development of cancer cells. When tumor suppressor genes are altered or ...

Certain HPV viruses promote cancer by transforming normal, healthy cells into abnormal, tumorous cells. This happens because HPV manufactures certain proteins, called E6 and E7 oncoproteins ...

Even with advanced treatment options, the small cell lung cancer (SCLC) survival rate is not as good as it is with other types of lung cancer. SCLC can grow and spread quickly. According to statistics ...

1 Department of Clinical Laboratory, People's Hospital of Bao'an District, Shenzhen Baoan Clinical Medical College of Guangdong Medical University, Shenzhen, China 2 State Key Laboratory of Oncology ...

One in two people will develop cancer in their lifetime. In neither case will doctors be able to determine why, perhaps 15 years or more ago, a healthy cell transformed into a pre-cancer; or when that ...

Researchers at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University have identified a novel type of immune cell, called the stem-like CD4 T cell, that plays a pivotal role in anti-tumor immunity.

Ever since the first blood-forming stem cells were successfully transplanted into people with blood cancers more than 50 years ago, researchers have wondered whether they developed cancer-causing ...