New research reveals that certain brain tumors may originate silently within normal brain cells long before a tumor forms.

New research has shown how brain cells acquire a cancerous mutation and spread across the cortex, opening a new path for ...

DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) -- Small cell lung cancer is one of the most aggressive and deadly forms of lung cancer commonly associated with smoking. Now, researchers at Duke Health have uncovered a ...

A new study by Duke researchers marked a major shift in understanding one of the deadliest forms of lung cancer. On Wednesday, researchers released a new study that found small cell lung cancer (SCLC) ...

The idea that stem cells - special cells that divide to repair and generate tissues - might be the major determinant of cancer risk has provoked great debate in the scientific community. Some ...

Researchers at the Université libre de Bruxelles, ULB define for the first time how the cancer cell of origin controls invasive and metastatic properties of tumor cells. Tumor heterogeneity describes ...

There are many types of breast cancer, but the most common one is hormone receptor-positive HER2-negative, which makes up about 80% of all cases. One important aspect of breast cancer is understanding ...

Cancer continues to be one of the world's top causes of death, partly because of delayed discovery of the disease. But according to a recently released study, a simple blood test may be able to ...