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 ...

The human papillomavirus (HPV) is responsible for at least 95% of the 660,000 cervical cancer diagnoses globally. But US research shows the tremendous impact of ongoing vaccine programs.

A case report recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) presents a previously unknown cause of skin cancer: human papillomavirus (HPV). While HPV has previously been linked to ...

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, ...

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 ...

Prostate cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer-related death in men. Most patients who are diagnosed during earlier stages usually respond well to treatment. In some, however, the disease ...

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 ...

As questions mount over the value of vaccines and whether there are connections between COVID and cancer, The Baltimore Sun reached out to Dr. Bryan Donohue, a cardiologist and former chair of ...