Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. And now, a new study published in Nature has found that viral lung infections can awaken dormant breast cancer cells that have ...

Deaths from cancer have fallen dramatically. They’ve dropped by 34% over the past three decades — largely thanks to better treatments, earlier detection, and fewer people smoking. But cancer ...

Researchers have discovered a natural immune mechanism in mice that stops escaped cancer cells from developing into tumors elsewhere in the body. Metastatic disease -- when cancer spreads from the ...

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) ...

Researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Montefiore Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center (MECCC), and Utrecht University have found the first direct evidence that common ...

Metastatic disease - when cancer spreads from the primary tumor to other parts of the body - is the cause of most cancer deaths. While researchers understand how cancer cells escape the primary site ...

Dormant lung cancer cells change their shape from spindle shaped (above) to round (below), which helps protect them from the body's immune defenders. Cancer cells that have broken away from a primary ...