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Upon learning she had a breast cancer tumor, a Croatian virologist decided to grow her own viruses to fight the disease — and it worked.

Scientist Injects Her Own Cancerous Tumor With Viruses She Grew in Lab

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists at the University of Oxford have started developing the world's first ovarian cancer vaccine. It could be a game changer for women.

Groundbreaking Ovarian Cancer Vaccine at an “Exciting” Moment, Lead Scientist Says

By Victor Tangermann

Despite a significant proportion of cancer cases being attributed to alcohol, most people still don't realize its cancer risks.

Experts Warn of Link Between Drinking Alcohol and Getting Cancer

By Frank Landymore

Researchers have found that a shocking amount of microplastics are ending up in our brains, "pretty alarming" results.

A Shocking Percentage of Our Brains Are Made of Microplastics, Scientists Find

By Victor Tangermann

Study: By 2050, Men’s Cancer Deaths Will Soar to 93% Global Increase

Study: By 2050, Men’s Cancer Deaths Will Soar to 93% Global Increase

By Noor Al-Sibai

More younger people are getting hit with all sorts of different cancers, and microplastics may be one big risk factor.

Microplastics Likely Causing Wave of Cancer in Young People

By Sharon Adarlo

A potent carcinogen called ethylene oxide is polluting the air in Louisiana's "Cancer Alley" at much higher levels than the EPA estimated.

The EPA Grossly Underestimated How Many Carcinogens are Polluting This Louisiana Region’s Air, Study Says

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

New research suggests that there may be a link between tattoos and cancer. But the findings have proved controversial.

New Research Links Tattoos to Developing Cancer

By Frank Landymore

The UK's National Health Service is fast-tracking patients for its new cancer vaccine trials that customize each jab to each patient.

Thousands of Patients to Be Given World’s First Cancer Vaccine

By Noor Al-Sibai

After months of speculation, Kate Middleton, the wife of Prince William, has revealed that she has cancer in a new video.

Kate Middleton Reveals She Has Cancer, Will Undergo Chemotherapy

By Noor Al-Sibai

King Charles III has been diagnosed with cancer, Buckingham Palace officials confirmed today. We still don't know what kind or what stage.

King Charles Has Cancer

By Victor Tangermann

Young people are getting diagnosed with cancer at rates higher than ever before — and doctors are stumped as to why.

Doctors Alarmed by Young People Getting Cancer at Unprecedented Rates

By Noor Al-Sibai

A cancer-combating pill called divarasib could be a breakthrough in treating a specific form of bowel cancer.

Anti-Cancer Pill Shows Promising Results in Human Experiment

By Frank Landymore

Scientists calculated that almost one out of three men on Earth carries at least one variation of the human papillomavirus (HPV).

One in Three Dudes Has an STI, Scientists Find

By Sharon Adarlo

Researchers discovered a new mechanism that could force cancer cells to self-destruct, hijacking their ability to replicate uncontrollably.

Scientists Intrigued by Clever Trick That Makes Cancer Cells Self-Destruct

By Victor Tangermann

The International Agency on Cancer Research will list aspartame as "possibly carcinogenic to humans" next month, according to a report.

The WHO Is About to Declare Aspartame a Possible Carcinogen

By Frank Landymore

A decade-long global study has shown that a once-daily pill reduces the risk of dying from lung cancer by over half.

Scientists Intrigued by Pill That Cuts Lung Cancer Deaths in Half

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Startup Accidentally Tells Over 400 Patients They Might Have Cancer

Startup Accidentally Tells Over 400 Patients They Might Have Cancer

By Noor Al-Sibai

Doctors are warning about oral sex leading to an "epidemic" in throat cancer — but headlines fail to mention a vaccine that can help.

Worried About Getting Throat Cancer From Oral Sex? We Have Very Good News

By Noor Al-Sibai

One of the world's foremost psychedelics researchers is taking a curious approach to the knowledge of his own death — by treating it as a beautiful mystery.

Pioneering Psychedelics Researcher Gets Terminal Cancer, Is Totally Chill

By Noor Al-Sibai

Bloomberg has decided to chastise the lab-grown meat industry's failure to address cancer concerns — because of the fact that there... aren't... any.

Bloomberg Shredded for Amazingly Stupid Article About Fake Meat and Cancer

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In a truly bizarre case, doctors have documented for the first time ever a man developing a random Irish accent after getting prostate cancer.

Man’s Cancer Caused “Uncontrollable” Irish Accent, Doctors Say

By Noor Al-Sibai

Patients had their holiday spirits quashed and were unfairly distressed by the accidental mass text sent just two days before Christmas.

Doctor Accidentally Messages Patients to Say They Have Aggressive Cancer

By Frank Landymore

A team of researchers at Stanford Medicine have created what they hope will one day be a life-saving treatment for brain cancer: a wireless brain implant.

Doctors Test Brain Implant That Destroys Tumors

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The married couple who helped create Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine predict that the new vaccine they're developing will cure cancer within the decade.

Vaccine Makers Predict We Will Have Cancer Cure “Before 2030”

By Noor Al-Sibai

Doctors are up in arms over a new study suggesting that colonoscopies might not be as necessary as previously thought — and they're sounding off online.

Gut Doctors Unhappy About Study Claiming Colonoscopies Might Not Be Necessary

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists in the UK conducted a trial of an experimental cancer therapy that uses the cold sore virus to make cancer cells explode.

Virus Modified to Kill Cancer Cells Appears to Have Saved a Patient’s Life

By Frank Landymore

Scientists at UCSF say they've developed a new treatment that causes cancer cells to rat on themselves, allowing the immune system to easily kill them.

New Treatment Turns Cancer Genes Into “Eat Me” Signs For Immune System

By Frank Landymore

Early-onset cancer is an increasing threat to the global population, according to a new report. Early-onset cancer may be a new epidemic.

Young People Are Getting Way More Cancer Than Old People Did

By Lonnie Lee Hood

$A new Yale study says children born while living next to fracking locations are almost three times as likely to be diagnosed with leukemia.$

Kids Born Near Fracking Sites More Likely to Have Leukemia, Study Says

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A viral Twitter video claims to illustrate how motor proteins move. It's fun, but incorrect — and what those molecules actually do is way cooler.

The Real Story Behind That Viral Clip of a Protein With a Confident Strut

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A new study shows that resistant starch has an astonishing ability to help prevent a range of hereditary cancers, cutting risk by 60 percent.

Study Suggests That Pill Can Cut Hereditary Cancer Risk by 60 Percent

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Doctors researching an experimental cancer treatment were shocked when every single patient in the small trial went into remission.

Scientists Intrigued by Treatment That Put Every Single Patient’s Cancer Into Remission

By Noor Al-Sibai

A team of scientists at the University of Michigan say they managed to break down liver tumors in rats, using nothing but noninvasive ultrasound waves.

Scientists Say They Partially Destroyed Tumors With Sound

By Victor Tangermann

More than 100 people from the same New Jersey high school have developed rare brain tumors, possibly because of radioactive material left behind.

More Than a Hundred Graduates of a Particular High School Got Rare Cancers

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A new report finds Russian President Vladimir Putin keeps cancer doctors who work on thyroid diseases on call or with him at all times.

Putin Almost Always Accompanied by Cancer Specialist, Investigation Finds

By Lonnie Lee Hood

President Joe Biden's top science advisor Eric Lander resigned Monday night after admitting that he abused employees.

Scientist Hired by Biden to Cure Cancer Ousted for Abusing Employees

By Victor Tangermann

The American Cancer Society revealed on Wednesday that overall cancer death rates dropped 32 percent from its peak in 1991 to 2019.

Good News: Cancer Deaths Have Dramatically Fallen in the Past 30 Years

By Tony Ho Tran

She may look like a pre-teen, but Shauna Rae is legally old enough to drink — and soon, the world will know her story, or at least the TLC version of it.

The Fascinating Saga of the 22-Year-Old Woman Trapped in Body of 8-Year-Old

By Noor Al-Sibai

Doctors say that a woman who refused treatment and took CBD oil instead showed a remarkable improvement and that the tumor in her lung shrank drastically.

RX and Medicine

Doctors Say CBD Oil Shrank a Patient’s Tumor

By Dan Robitzski

New Treatment Eradicated Tumors in Terminally Ill Cancer Patients

New Treatment Eradicated Tumors in Terminally Ill Cancer Patients

By Dan Robitzski

AI Blood Test Can Spot Lung Cancers With 90 Percent Accuracy

AI Blood Test Can Spot Lung Cancers With 90 Percent Accuracy

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists managed to 3D print a "viable" glioblastoma tumor so that they can develop better, more effective treatments for the deadly brain cancer.

Scientists 3D Print Living, Viable Brain Tumor, to Practice Killing It

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists were able to lump every kind of cancer out there into two categories based on whether they express a single protein.

Doctors Say They Found a Protein Linking All Cancers

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers at the University of Zurich have modified a common respiratory virus called the adenovirus to eliminate tumors from the inside out.

Doctors Hack Virus to Make Tumors Kill Themselves

By Victor Tangermann

As the pandemic begins its 15th official year, doctors are seeing severe cancer cases that went ignored for too long for one reason or another.

Severe Cancer Is on the Rise

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers have designed a personalized cancer vaccine capable of inducing a years-long immune response that fights off melanoma.

Harvard Scientists Excited by Results on New Cancer Vaccine

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists submitted a new cancer medication for the FDA's approval without having experimented on a single animal.

Scientists Create Cancer Drug Without Any Animal Tests

By Dan Robitzski

Nanoprobes called bioharmonophores can seek out and bind to cancer cells, making them glow brightly under medical scanners.

Cancer-Hunting Nanotech Makes Tumors Light Up

By Dan Robitzski

A startup wants to deliver cancer drugs directly to brain tumors via tiny, injectible devices that look like little drills.

Startup Creates Tiny Drill to Burrow Through Your Brain With Magnets

By Dan Robitzski

New research suggests that Toxoplasma gondii, the brain parasite infamously spread by pet cats, is linked to a greater risk of brain cancer.

Parasite Spread to Humans by Pet Cats Linked to Brain Cancer

By Dan Robitzski

After being arrested in late 2019 for attempting to take biological samples with him to China, cancer researcher Zaosong Zheng was sentenced to time served.

Cancer Researcher Sentenced for Stealing Biological Samples

By Dan Robitzski

COVID-19 is on track to become the leading cause of death in the U.S., beating the daily death tolls for cancer and heart disease combined.

Daily Coronavirus Deaths Top Heart Disease and Cancer Combined

By Dan Robitzski

A massive scientific review that combined the results of thousands of studies found that regularly eating chili peppers is linked to major health benefits.

Huge Meta-Study: This Food Appears to Actually Make You Live Longer

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists are using viruses harvested from common plants to create cancer immunotherapies — and they've already proven to be effective in animal models.

This Strange Plant Virus Could Treat Many Cancers

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers have found a way to biosynthesize tiny gold nanoparticles directly within cancer cells to aid in x-ray imaging — and to destroy them.

Doctors Say They Can Kill Tumors by Growing Gold Inside Them

By Victor Tangermann

Doctors engineered a virus that can infect treatment-resistant tumors and make them more vulnerable to existing therapies.

Doctors Fight Deadly Tumors Using Gene-Hacked Virus

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists thinks it's cracked the code for developing electronics that can be embedded in someone's body without causing scarring along the way.

Prosthetics and Devices

Doctors Want to Put Chips In Your Body to Monitor Tumors

By Dan Robitzski

A team of Chinese researchers claim their blood test can detect five types of cancer in 95 percent of asymptomatic patients who later were diagnosed.

New Blood Test Appears to Detect Cancer Years Before Symptoms

By Victor Tangermann

By genetically modifying goats, scientists found a way to make them manufacture expensive cancer medications in their milk.

Scientists Gene-Hack Goats to Make Cancer Drug in Their Milk

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists are working on a swarm of tiny, cell-sized robots that can travel inside a patient's bloodstream and target cancer cells.

Scientists Disguise Cancer-Hunting Nanorobots as Blood Cells

By Dan Robitzski

Engineers built tiny, iron nanobots that they can implant and track inside a patient's body, which they say could be used to kill off cancer cells.

These Scientists Say Nanobots Could Kill Individual Cancer Cells

By Dan Robitzski

New research reveals that cancer-linked mutations can occur years before any symptoms appear, potentially giving doctors a new tool to diagnose it early.

New Research: Cancer Symptoms Can Appear Years Before Diagnosis

By Dan Robitzski

A new study found that the presence of THC in the blood can accelerate growth of tumors in patients with HPV infection-related head and neck cancer.

New Research: Cannabis Accelerates Growth of Common Tumors

By Victor Tangermann