Cancer is a complex disease that evades the immune system through various mechanisms. The rapid proliferation of cells and their ability to resist therapy make cancer extremely aggressive. Solid ...

Doctors often monitor tumor markers in the blood to help diagnose and treat liver cancer. Alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) is the most common tumor marker that doctors monitor. Tumor markers, also called ...

Tumor marker blood tests may help inform various aspects of cancer care, including diagnosis, staging, treatment planning, and outlook. However, they’re often not the only diagnostic tests used. If ...

When Ginny Mason was diagnosed with inflammatory breast cancer in 1994, she never once heard the word “biomarker.” “Back then, all you got was ER and PR [the estrogen receptor and progesterone ...

A tumor marker for pancreatic cancer helps healthcare professionals detect, diagnose, or treat it. However, a person can have high tumor marker levels without having cancer. Tumor markers are ...

While we're still learning how to best treat cancer, doctors have gotten better at spotting it in its earliest stage. That's thanks to specific cancer markers—cells that often appear when invasive ...

The segment spotlighted the Baylor-led research recently published in Nature Medicine evaluating autologous Multi-Antigen Targeted T cell therapy in patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma ...

The field of cancer metabolism is ever expanding. Scientists are studying new ways to target metabolism to reduce tumor growth. In healthy cells energy is obtained through complex metabolic processes ...

Researchers find breast cancer risk marker linked to physical activity in girls - Rates of breast cancer are rising among ...