Cancer

After her shocking lung cancer diagnosis, the late Susan Wojcicki dedicated herself to fighting the disease and looking for answers

Vaccines based on mRNA can be tailored to target a cancer patient’s unique tumor mutations. But crumbling support for cancer and mRNA vaccine research has endangered this promising therapy

From COVID shots to cancer therapy, mRNA is changing medicine.

After studying mice in the 1910s, Maude Slye concluded that vulnerability to cancer was hereditary. She thought she had a solution to eliminate it, but she made some crucial mistakes

Thoracic surgeon Jonathan Villena explains why early screening for lung cancer is critical—even for those without symptoms.

Workouts seem to release body chemicals that improve cancer survival and limit recurrence

Nobel laureate Shimon Sakaguchi reflects on what role of regulatory T cells have in peripheral immune tolerance and how the cells could transform treatment for cancer, autoimmune disease and organ transplant rejection

Surgeons in China transplanted part of pig liver into a patient with an incurable cancerous tumor, and it functioned for more than a month

A report finds that death rates from cancer and heart disease have declined since 2010 in roughly 150 countries. Experts explain potential reasons why

What we know about Joe Biden’s cancer, prognosis and treatment options

Researchers are trying to understand how a common prenatal blood test called NIPT is detecting cancer in some pregnant patients.

The Trump administration’s mass federal firings include the scientific investigators who make dangerous workplaces safe for millions of people