Adenocarcinomas of the lung are characterized by morphological heterogeneity, and since carcinogenesis has been suggested to be a multistep process involving sequential accumulation of multiple ...

A study finds that, in mouse models, cancer cells from metastatic lymph nodes can escape into the circulation by invading nodal blood vessels, leading to the development of metastases in other parts ...

Invasion Factors uPA/PAI-1 and HER2 Status Provide Independent and Complementary Information on Patient Outcome in Node-Negative Breast Cancer Purpose: We postulate that surgical sampling and ...

This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2014 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract does not include a full text component. If you have the appropriate software installed, you can download article ...

A routine health check leads one Central Texas man on a lifesaving journey, prompting doctors to stress the importance of ...

A protein involved with cell death can be manipulated to slow or reverse tumor growth, a pair of new studies in mice found. A colorized three dimensional micrographic scan of a melanoma cell. Recent ...

When doctors diagnose lung cancer, they also try to determine what stage the cancer is at. This helps them decide on the best course of treatment. The most prevalent type of lung cancer, non-small ...

CD8+ T cells - known as "killer" T cells - are the assassins of the immune system. Once they are primed, they seek out and destroy other cells that are infected with virus or cells that are cancerous.

“The biggest risk for lung cancer is cigarette smoking,” says Waqar. It’s estimated that 85% of lung cancer deaths are ...