Breast cancer can go away for a while and then show up again. It can also spread to different areas of your body when it comes back. Sometimes, breast cancer returns and spreads to the pleura, the ...

Dr. Susan MacDonald breaks down the TNM staging system (Tumor, Nodes, Metastasis) to help patients understand their clinical ...

What Is Metastatic Throat Cancer? It’s cancer that starts in your throat and spreads to other parts of your body. Your doctor may call it stage IV or advanced throat cancer. Most throat cancers are ...

A new study by the Garvan Institute of Medical Research has uncovered a hidden mechanism explaining why breast cancer can ...

Metastatic breast cancer (MBC) or stage IV breast cancer is when cancer spreads beyond the breast and regional lymph nodes to distant sites like bones, liver, lungs or brain. Breast cancer cells ...

What happens if cancer cells lose both their mitochondrial energy supply and their glycolytic backup system? This question is ...

Cancer specialists have long known that anemia, caused by a lack of healthy red blood cells, can arise when cancer metastasizes to the bone, but it’s been unclear why. A research team led by Princeton ...

More than 90% of cancer deaths in America are attributable to metastasis, when cancer spreads from its original site to other parts of the body. Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center ...

Cancer metastasis -- the spread of cancer to other organs -- is the leading cause of death among cancer patients. Researchers have now uncovered a 'genetic signature' of 177 genes shared across ...

New drugs have made America’s deadliest cancer more treatable than ever. So why aren’t they reaching patients?