Stanford scientists have identified 380 key genetic variants that significantly influence cancer development, filtering ...

Aging is a privilege, but it also brings risks -- including an increased likelihood of developing age-related diseases including cancer. Researchers have now created a landmark atlas of how healthy ...

New research published in Nature Communications reveals how cancer cells are altered by their surroundings, enabling them to ...

Thousands of single changes in the nucleotides that make up the human genome have been associated with an increased risk of ...

The American Cancer Society recently released a report showing that the mortality rate for those with cancer declined by 34% ...

Although lung cancer has been the leading cause of lung-cancer death globally for decades, there are important temporal and geographical differences in lung-cancer incidence, mortality, and other ...

Mr Ghebreyesus said in high-income countries, almost 90 per cent of children survive, while in low-income and middle-income countries, survival rates are often below 30 per centThe World Health ...

Was it simply a fluke that he kept treating strikingly young patients? Or was his practice one tiny data point in a larger trend? He found his answer after sifting through national health data: ...

New research maps the global burden of male cancers from 1990 to 2040, showing how aging, lifestyle, and healthcare access ...

Prominent health care organizations urge the Trump administration to restore important data sets on the Centers for Disease ...

Researchers project that 618,120 people will die from cancer in the US this year, which works out to about 1700 deaths per day. The American Cancer Society (ACS) has released cancer statistics for ...

A new campaign has been launched to tackle the misconception that breast cancer is an “older white woman’s disease”.