When a child develops a brain tumor, early diagnosis is essential. Alan Cohen, M.D., director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, shares the most common signs and symptoms ...

The TP53 gene is a gene that is mutated in many cancers. It is the most common gene mutation found in cancer cells. A tumor-suppressor gene, TP53 codes for a protein that inhibits the development and ...

Brain cancer and other nervous system cancers have a 33.4% five-year survival rate. In adults, brain tumors rarely begin in the brain — when they do, they're known as primary brain cancers.

For 3 out of every hundred people with cancer, the primary site of cancer isn't found. When this is the case, the tumor is usually referred to as a metastatic cancer of unknown primary origin. With ...

1Neurology Clinic and National Center for Tumor Diseases, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany. 2Clinical Cooperation Unit Neurooncology, German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), German Cancer ...

Chimeric antigen receptor-T (CAR-T) cell therapy, initially successful in hematologic malignancies, presents a promising avenue for treating solid tumors, including CRC. This review explores the ...

About six weeks after her symptoms began, she insisted on an ultrasound and was eventually diagnosed with Stage 3 borderline ovarian tumors, a type of pre-cancerous mass. “It’s ...

Synthetic and Functional Biomolecules Center, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education, College of ...

Wilms tumor (also called nephroblastoma) is the most common type of kidney cancer in children. About 9 of 10 kidney cancers in children are Wilms tumors. These cancers are different from adult kidney ...