Stopping cancer cells from entering a soft biomechanical state could help the immune system clear dormant cancer metastasis.

Cancer cells that have broken away from a primary tumor can lurk in the body for years in a dormant state, evading immune ...

Cancer’s cruelest trick is its ability to disappear, only to reappear years later in a new organ or a familiar scar. The fear ...

Researchers found flu and COVID infections can awaken dormant cancer cells in mice and humans. Inflammation, IL-6 signaling, and immune cell dynamics were central to the reactivation process. Human ...

The worry that breast cancer may someday return is a troubling source of anxiety for many survivors of the disease. It’s understandable why, since most relapses and metastatic cancers (cancers that ...

PHILADELPHIA – A first-of-its-kind, federally funded clinical trial has shown it’s possible to identify breast cancer survivors who are at higher risk of their cancer coming back due to the presence ...

In mice, common respiratory infections reactivated dormant cancer cells. Early evidence suggests the same may happen in humans, with big implications for long-term cancer risk. This colored ...

New Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center research reveals how dormant metastatic cancer cells protect themselves from the ...