The new mother had a normal recovery from childbirth. But a month later, she was beset by debilitating symptoms.

Those delivered that way were more than a quarter more likely to get the most common form of childhood leukaemia, a study ...

NIH’s SMaHT Network will chart trillions of somatic mutations to reveal how our DNA changes over a lifetime. In a nutshell ...

Cancer-fighting T-cells, the immune system's primary enforcers, are scarce in the rare kidney cancer called chromophobe renal ...

A compound best known for giving almonds and apricots their aroma may be the key to defeating hard-to-kill cancer cells. Japanese researchers found that benzaldehyde can stop the shape-shifting ...

Each time a cell divides, a small section of each chromosome's protective cap—the telomere—is worn away. Most cells use an ...

Single-celled organisms called archaea aren't generally thought to cause human disease, but one species has been implicated in colorectal cancer ...

The damage to these cells can cause potential side effects, like fatigue, vomiting and nausea, but it’s important to note ...

While the American Cancer Society does not recommend “routine” prostate-specific antigen screening for men, there's a lot to ...

Kate Middleton shed light on some of the hurdles she'd had to face since completing cancer treatment earlier this year.

New findings show that the stage of normal cell development at which B cells transform into leukemic cells impacts treatment ...

For the first time, scientists have systematically studied the genetic effects of chemotherapy on healthy tissues. Researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, the University of Cambridge, ...