Quatro vírus e uma bactéria foram responsáveis por 12% dos casos de câncer no mundo em 2024. Isso significa que eles são evitáveis?
- Senior Research Officer, Blood Cells and Blood Cancer, WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research)
Four viruses and one bacteria were responsible for 12% of the world’s cancer cases in 2024. Does this mean they’re preventable?
For one thing, there’d be a much higher rate of brain cancers in the decades since mobile phones were widely adopted.
Jeremy Clarkson says his prostate cancer is ‘aggressive’. Here’s what that actually means.
Scolyer captured the world’s attention when he volunteered for a world-first experimental treatment for brain cancer. He died on Sunday night, aged 59.
Your body has trillions of cells. But a gene mutation in just one of them could prove fatal.
Blood tests are helpful for monitoring your overall health. But research suggests they can also give us clues about the development of some cancers.
Cancer rates are rising among younger people aged under 50. Here’s what we know about the causes – and what the evidence says about the role of plastics.
The beloved actor says she will be receiving the best treatment available for the stage 4 cancer.
Veja o que os médicos consideram quando calculam a pontuação de Gleason de um câncer de próstata.
Here’s what clinicians consider when they calculate a prostate cancer’s Gleason score.
Biotech startup Haemanthus says it can detect illnesses with tiny amounts of blood, urine and saliva. Here’s why that’s more difficult than it sounds.
Même lorsque les traitements contre le cancer ont bien fonctionné, les praticiens préfèrent généralement dire que leurs patients sont « en rémission » plutôt que « sans cancer » . Pourquoi ?
It only takes a few surviving cells for a cancer to grow back, and the available testing methods often can’t detect them while they’re dormant.
Could mRNA vaccines be the next big thing for melanoma?
Stopping cells from dividing into new cells is one way to fight cancer. This is how the drug abemaciclib works.
A cancer that spreads is much more dangerous. Here’s why – and how it happens.
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