It's a contributor to multiple cancers. Infectious disease doctors have made a new discovery that could impact treatment ...

A TED Talk-style presentation on the effects of tangled DNA strands took first place at this year's Postdoc Slam competition, ...

Doctors at the National Institutes of Health have discovered a new cause of skin cancer, according to a case report published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine. The culprit is a type of ...

A genetic mutation commonly found in cancer patients may also affect how the human body develops in the womb, according to ...

Globally, breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed type of cancer and the leading cause of cancer death among women. The organization spearheading global cancer research and control efforts is ...

The human papillomavirus (HPV) can cause six types of cancer. It's responsible for almost all cervical cancer cases. HPV now causes the majority of oropharyngeal (throat) cancers. It can also cause ...

The scans are estimated to cause 2% of annual cancers — but new measures could keep radiation at safer levels Solskin/Getty CT scans ‘routinely’ deliver up to three times the radiation they should, ...

Robert F. Kennedy, the secretary of Health and Human Services, still believes that cell phones are causing brain cancer, as revealed in a congressional hearing in January. Most studies on this ...

Chemotherapy, although lifesaving, causes a lot of side effects as it travels through the body to reach a cancerous tumor. From nausea to hair loss, these reactions arise because these drugs also ...