A team of surgeons, anesthesiologists and engineers at the University of Illinois Chicago is studying how lidocaine, a common local anesthetic, affects pancreatic cancer cells released into the ...

Pinned between the stomach and spine, the pancreas supervises both digestion and blood sugar in the body. It's also the site of an aggressive cancer called pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma, or PDAC.

Early-stage gastric cancer can be assessed more accurately using a new liquid biopsy tool that predicts lymph node metastasis ...

A new study of adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with seven common cancers reveals that nearly one in ten patients diagnosed with non-metastatic disease later develop metastatic recurrence—a ...

A tissue section from a mouse model of lung metastasis showing cancer cells (green) that have attracted and activated fibroblasts (red) to support the growth of a metastatic tumor. Image: Massagué Lab ...

Researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle may have found a way to essentially smother cancer cells in their sleep, preventing them from ever waking up and forming deadly ...

Adrenal metastasis is cancer that has spread from another area of the body to the adrenal glands. In most cases, adrenal tumors are benign, but cancer can spread to the adrenal glands from other areas ...

Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is usually detected at later stages. Unfortunately, by this time the cancer has moved or metastasized to other tissues throughout the body. One of the most common ...

Combined androgen blockade shows significant survival benefits over single-agent ADT in high-risk prostate cancer, as demonstrated by the PRESTO, EMBARK, and ENZARAD trials. The PRESTO trial ...

Several years ago, in a lab meeting, one of Nikolaus Schultz’s postdoctoral fellows posed a question: “Do you think it’s possible to predict, based on the genomic profile of an individual tumor, which ...