Kansas State University engineers think the possibilities are deep for a very thin material.

Researchers at North Carolina State University are looking to soy as a way to make traditional canine cancer therapy more effective, less stressful for the dog and less costly for the owners.

An unemployed Ohio husband and wife with six children conned family and friends out of $800,000 by claiming he was suffering from cancer.

Farrah Fawcett, who has been battling cancer since 2006, has been hospitalized in Los Angeles, according to reports.

Scientists have discovered that growing mouse skin cells in spheres can lead to generation of cells with properties of cancer stem cells, even without genetic manipulation of stem cell genes.

Duke University chemists are using modified magnetic resonance imaging to see molecular changes inside people's bodies that could signal health problems such as cancer.

Two University of Rhode Island scientists have revealed how a cancer causing protein is regulated by reactive oxygen species (ROS) -- a type of stress signal.

Researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have developed an assay that may be used to help identify new genes that can predict a predisposition to cancer.

Johns Hopkins engineers have invented a method that could be used to help figure out how cancer cells break free from neighboring tissue, an "escape" that can spread the disease to other parts of the body. The new lab-on-a-chip, described in the March issue of the journal Nature Methods, could lead to better cancer therapies.

Actor Ron Silver, a veteran of television and movies, has died after a long battle with esophageal cancer. He was 62.

Every tumor, starting from a size of a few millimeters, depends on a supply of nutrients and oxygen. Therefore, using special growth factors, it induces vascular wall cells of neighboring blood vessels to sprout new capillaries in order to get connected to the blood circulation.

Peter Tork, 67, a former member of 1960's band The Monkees, has a rare form of head and neck cancer, he has revealed on his website. Tork is at the very right in the picture of The Monkees in this post.