Breast cancer is becoming increasingly treatable, but in some cases the disease can resurface even decades after a patient has been declared cancer free. This is because of cells that detach from the ...

Understanding exactly how these cancer cells go dormant and hide for years is still a bit of a mystery for oncologists. Targeted research has revealed different types of cancer cells potentially ...

The proteins thrombospondin-1 and -2 (TSP-1 and TSP-2) are key components in maintaining endothelial homeostasis. A proliferative niche has been associated with high concentrations of periostin and ...

How do cancer cells travel beyond the primary tumor, stay dormant for years and then suddenly wake up, causing cancer to recur? Researchers at Mount Sinai believe they may have found one answer—and ...

UK scientists said they had found a mechanism for why patients with oestrogen receptor positive (ER+) breast cancer had a substantial risk of late recurrence and might present with metastatic disease ...

Scientists studied factors such as viral infections, gut microbiome, and exposome that could drive cancers, as well as how to ...

image: This is Robert Bast, M.D., from University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. view more HOUSTON – A single tumor-suppressing gene is a key to understanding, and perhaps killing, dormant ...

This week we have selected a recent article from The Conversation contributed by Dr Francesco Crea, a clinician and research ...

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 to ...

Years after a successful treatment cancers can often recur when dormant tumor cells reawaken. Exactly what reactivates these sleeping cancer cells is unknown but a compelling new study is offering a ...

Natural killer cells can drive spreading cancer cells to enter a state of dormancy. That finding, together with the discovery of a pathway that hinders this antitumour function, could spur the ...

Researchers have solved a major mystery in cancer research: How cancer cells remain dormant for years after they leave a tumor and travel to other parts of the body, before awakening to create ...