But new research may have found the key to answering the mysterious increase in colorectal cancer cases in young people — and ...

Bowel cancer rates have been rising in people under 55 for years. But scientists have yet to determine the reason.

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Cervical cancer is no longer limited to older women. Doctors warn that Indian women in their 20s and 30s are increasingly at ...

Breast cancer nurses hope books they have written to help explain treatments to children will help the "whole family". Authors and specialist nurses Emily Turnbull and Rachel Lockerbie wrote three ...

The immune system also loses some of its strength with age, making it easier for cancer cells to colonize the body. But classic risk factors do not seem to fully explain the recent rise in early-onset ...

Cancer's knack for developing resistance to chemotherapy has long been a major obstacle to achieving lasting remissions or cures. While tumors may shrink soon after chemotherapy, many times they ...

Two new studies provide stunning evidence suggesting that cyclin D1 -- which is found in up to eight times normal amounts in half of all breast cancers -- can cause a shift in the cancer cell's ...

The story was all too familiar. A patient is diagnosed with locally aggressive prostate cancer. A few days before the surgery, the patient does not show up for his preoperative visit. We call the ...

Q: Ever since my father was diagnosed with cancer last summer, our 10-year-old son keeps asking my wife and me to explain exactly what cancer is. Our answers don’t seem to satisfy him, so we wonder: ...

Methylmalonic acid is a byproduct of fat and protein digestion. This is an Inside Science story. Many forms of cancer become more common and deadlier as we get older. There are several reasons behind ...

Cancer's knack for developing resistance to chemotherapy has long been a major obstacle to achieving lasting remissions or cures. While tumors may shrink soon after chemotherapy, many times they ...