The Netherlands Cancer Institute has found that the estrous cycle stage significantly influences mammary tumors' sensitivity ...

A 'breast mouse' is a completely benign - that is non-cancerous - form of breast lump that can be moved around within the breast tissue - hence the name. Their proper name is a fibroadenoma ...

Dec. 9, 2024 — Metastasis is responsible for 90 percent of cancer deaths. Researchers have found that the mutations driving it may stem from a commonly inherited variant of the PCSK9 ..

Ninety percent of cancer deaths are due to the spread of cancer, not complications from the original tumor. Thus, for over 50 ...

Interleukin-2 (IL-2) is a well-known cytokine that plays a crucial role in stimulating immune cells, including natural killer (NK) cells and cytotoxic T cells. It has been studied as an immunotherapy ...

The standard mammogram is sometimes used with breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to detect or rule out breast cancer for people at high risk of the disease. Breast MRIs can detect tumors that ...

Although breast cancer is less common in males, male breast cancer symptoms are often similar to those in women, such as lumps, nipple changes, and skin alterations. Male breast cancer begins when ...

When mice are engineered to carry a variant of the human PCSK9 gene, they experience higher rates of breast cancer metastasis, as is apparent in these images of mouse lung tissue showing PCSK9’s ...

A professor at the University of Illinois is pioneering cancer research that could curb tumor growth. Erik Nelson is an ...

Researchers have developed a method to program immune cells to target glioblastoma and reduce inflammation associated with ...

Animal imaging studies also confirmed the effects of the gene therapy were limited to cancer tissue and were undetectable in ...