Cancer cells are remarkably good at adapting to stress. When treatments damage them, they often find new ways to survive, fueling drug resistance and disease progression.

Cancer’s cruelest trick is its ability to disappear, only to reappear years later in a new organ or a familiar scar. The fear of that return shapes every scan, every follow-up visit, and every ...

A study led by researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center found that normal cells surrounding a tumor, known as cancer-associated fibroblasts, can help lung cancer cells survive targeted drug therapy by ...

How do you decide when treating your advanced small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) is worthwhile and when it might be time to stop? Lyudmila Bazhenova, MD, professor of medicine and co-leader of thoracic ...

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 ...

But in the case of cancer, this guardian exchanges its sugar coat armour for shorter sugar chains and so turns into a traitor ...

Scientists have uncovered a hidden immune system "brake" that may help cancers avoid being destroyed. The molecule, called ...

You might think of cancer as a mass of rogue cells that grow uncontrollably. But cancer is more organized and strategic than ...

Dormant lung cancer cells change their shape from spindle shaped (above) to round (below), which helps protect them from the body's immune defenders. Image: Wang, Z., et al., Nature Cancer (CC BY 4.0) ...

Tumor support cells called fibroblasts can help lung cancer cells survive targeted treatments, even when those drugs successfully block cancer-driving genes. Fibroblasts protect cancer cells through ...